You can see that we need to get some grip on how the right to privacy can be enforced as technologies continue to develop that can pose serious threats to individuals’ sense of dignity, reputation, privacy and safety.
- David Erdos
The freedom of expression and the need for privacy may be strange bedfellows today – but could full-blown estrangement beckon in a digital future that makes the leap from user-controlled content to unfiltered, online sharing of, well, everything?
A future where streaming your life online becomes the norm is not unthinkable, according to Dr David Erdos, whose research in the Faculty of Law explores the nature of data protection. “Take something like Snapchat Spectacles or Google Glass,” he says. “Such technology could very quickly take off, and all of a sudden it becomes ‘normal’ that everyone is recording everything, both audibly and visually, and the data is going everywhere and being used for all sorts of purposes – some individual, some organisational.”
This makes questions about what control we have over our digital footprint rather urgent.
“You can see that we need to get some grip on how the right to privacy can be enforced as technologies continue to develop that can pose serious threats to individuals’ sense of dignity, reputation, privacy and safety,” he adds.
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Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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