What is Privacy, Really?
This podcast is a rebroadcast of Bob Blakley's presentation from Digital ID World 2006.
Run time: 55 minutes.
The discussion of privacy revolves around issues of secrecy and information disclosure; currently pending privacy legislation in the United States, for example, penalizes disclosure of personal information, but reduces or eliminates penalties when the information disclosed has been encrypted.
In this talk, Bob will argue that equating privacy with secrecy is a fundamental mistake. Privacy is not about secrecy, and it's not about information. It's about human dignity, and there are better ways to protect human dignity than keeping secrets. Bob will examine the implications of his definition of privacy ("Privacy is the ability to lie about yourself and get away with it") and talk about how that definition can be used to think about privacy rights and how they arise in social and legal systems.
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