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[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series#Wednesday.2C_11_December_2019:_.22Just_Opt_Out.3F.22:_The_Hidden_Trade-Offs_in_Personal_Data_Ownership Janet Vertesi, Princeton University: "Just Opt Out?": The Hidden Trade-Offs in Personal Data Ownership]
Wednesday, 11 December 2019: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT
Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [Airmo]
Abstract: This talk reviews seven years’ worth of personal experiments aimed at opting out of data detection and platforms associated with the personal data economy online -- from keeping a pregnancy hidden from the internet to building your own cell phone. As technology companies shrug that if we don’t like their data policies we can “just opt out,” I question how realistic this assumption truly is. Can anyone just opt out and yet maintain an active digital lifestyle? And which hidden tradeoffs must we make in order to simply evade detection? As the experiments range from inconvenient to ridiculous to potentially dangerous, I present design and ethical implications for the next generation of tools that support radical data ownership online. The fact that most people stay on these platforms despite their discontent reveals that opting out is much more difficult than it seems.
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