Data Privacy

Author(s): Ronald Hoxha, Simankan Kafle

Mentor(s): Toni Farris, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Abstract
Corporations & social media look towards making a profit off data collection by using data to optimize their process. While that doesn’t seem too bad, corporations aren’t really known for handling and using an individual’s data in the most moral of ways.
Audio Transcript
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okay so welcome to our presentation our
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data and how data privacy affects us
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so first we’re going to go through the
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context, head into the analysis show a
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map of the conflict and talk about
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advocacy and action and what we did
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we’ll talk about our challenges and our
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impact
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so corporations and social media look to
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making a profit off data collection by
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optimizing the way they currently do
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things
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they present the right information at
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the right time to listen to what you’re
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saying and give creative responses and
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attempt to predict what you need slash
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might buy next
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while all this seems good to the
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individual corporations aren’t really
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known for handling their data in the
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most moral of ways
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they sell data to competitors use it to
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discriminate between individuals and
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poor security often leads to your data
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being leaked and or stolen
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this all leads to a fear of safety for
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the individual as the data can sometimes
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be the route you take to school where
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you are at during certain times who are
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your closest friends and family are your
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main information and any of your
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passwords
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an increasingly Digital World our data
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is managed and protected is a Forefront
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issue is oftentimes and not we create
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too much data too fast and don’t have
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those systems in place to handle such
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maintain any of it
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moving on to the conflict analysis
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corporations and social media
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for the positions interests and values
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of Corporations their main interest is
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creating profit and Revenue
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one of their positions is keeping grasp
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of users and pension spans the longer
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they can get a user to spend time on
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their platform the more money they’re
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able to generate through advertisements
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or through promotions from third party
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uh corporations
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and another one of their interests is
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following the news current events and
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Trends closely this way they can have
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up-to-date information for their users
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to digest
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for positioning cognitive bias and
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dehumanization
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corporations often try to blame laws
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saying they’re forced to hold data and
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because of this they end up using it
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corporations don’t see the individual
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they only see the data it’s easier for
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them to use and abuse personal data
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categorization and complexity of parties
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for the in-group social media
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influencers celebrities political
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happenings and advertisers all cause
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users to spend more time on social media
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for the out group
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any opposition to social media such as
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users or politicians with large
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followings who rally against social
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media or government restriction
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for the other side of the conflict
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analysis the users they want to be able
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to express their personal beliefs and
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ideologies online
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they want to maintain their Liberties
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and freedoms and they want the freedom
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to discuss and debate with other users
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individuals don’t really know how their
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data is being used or where it’s even
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being held they don’t see the
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corporations as things they can have
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conversations with
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and they usually just set the ways a
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corporation does things
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they’re unable to point fingers or blame
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a particular person when it comes to
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corporations
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and within in groups
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individuals interact with others who
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have similar sentiments
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like how politicians uh interact with
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politicians and influencers interact
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with influencers
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in the out group people or entities who
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share a positive uh
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opposite views to what they what they
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believe these can be uh politicians
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influencers celebrities or entire
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political groups or social movements
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so this is the conflict map of our topic
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um
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here we have embred all of the
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stakeholders and all the connections
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between them is how they
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how data privacy correlates in between
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all of them
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and for the obviously in action we plan
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to we plan and created a data privacy
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blog to bring awareness to the conflict
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on the blog we wanted to consider both
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perspectives of data privacy and wanted
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to show users what corporations do with
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data
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we also want to tell users what they can
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do to protect their data and our link to
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the blog is right here at
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ourdataprivacy.blogspot.com
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challenges and impact
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we brought awareness to the data privacy
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issue enacted to further push the
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conversation we also anticipated that
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many individuals wouldn’t know about the
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issue since most of us use apps without
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care of where our data is going and how
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it is being used
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some of our biggest challenges involved
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getting people on the blog and bringing
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awareness to the blog itself
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we also have to be careful when
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researching to not force our own
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viewpoints into this into the discussion
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and to operate solely under what we
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found
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and thank you for listening and that’s
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it for now

One reply on “Data Privacy”

Great project that addresses a very important topic in the evolving digital world. The conflict model is well done, I appreciate how many different perspectives are included!

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