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21.2.12 של איגוד האינטרנט הישראלי – 16הכינוס השנתי ה-

קץ עידן הפרטיות – האמנם?

המרכז הבינתחומי לניתוח וחיזוי טכנולוגי – אונ' ת"א

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“to protect the privacy of the individual from invasion either by the too enterprising press, the photographer, or the possessor of any other modern device for rewording or reproducing scenes or sounds“

Warren and Brandeis, “The Right to Privacy”, Harvard Law Review, Dec 15, 1890

“Emerging Technology” from the 19-th century and “The Right to Privacy”

1946(Will F. Jenkins)

PC, Internet,

Databases,

Search engines

and Privacy….

cyberspace

www.practis.org

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Beyond Facebook!

ICT, Nano, Bio, Medicine, Robotics, Materials, Cognition,

Converging Technologies…

Horizon Scanning

threats to privacy

enhancement of privacy

change of perception

(sensitivity to privacy)

Privacy impacts of new technologies

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A worldwide system of interconnected intuitive networks that pay attention to us, knows our likes and desires, and proactively feeds us the information we need to act (or acts by itself)...

Internet of Things (IoT)

“trillions of nanoscale sensors and actuators embedded in the environment…. in everyday electronics…track hospital equipment, sniff out pesticides in food, “recognize” the person using them and adapt.”

HP Vision: Central Nervous System for the Earth (CeNSE)

will cost "next to nothing, yet measure everything."

Availability of unprecedented amounts of (private?) data

Unprecedented surveillance & sensing capabilities

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Molecular Nanosensors

“Molecularly naked” patients:

nano-devices “could allow insurance companies to know more about our bodies than we do”

C. Toumey, “Nature Nanotechnology”, Apr. 2007

Massive collection of data pertaining to human social behavior obviously raises privacy questions, especially if the anonymisation of data is difficult.

IoT + Nanosensors + Reality Mining = ???

Collection and “mining” of machine-sensed data from mobile phones, cellular tower identifiers, GPS signals and other sensors, to discover patterns in daily user activity.

Synthetic TelepathySynthetic Telepathy

"By 2035, an implantable chip could be wired directly to the user’s brain….. including mind-to-mind or telepathic dialogue.” (UK MOD think tank)

Ultimate invasion of privacy?

Or total change of privacy perception?

– if even thinking is not private anymore!

"חיבורמוח"

"Brainpal”

““Invisibility Cloak”Invisibility Cloak”

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Perfect PET?

Or total change of privacy perception?

Impact of Emerging Technologies on Privacy: PRACTIS Experts Survey

Impact of Emerging Technologies on Privacy: PRACTIS Experts Survey

Risks vs. benefits: change of perception?