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Jan Softa @ Somerco Date: 2014-12-03
Enhance EU member states competitiveness
Part 28: Digital Magna Carta – exemptions from privacy rights
Abstract
A global Digital Magna Carta that lays the foundation for everyone’s access to internet is beneficial trade and social exchange. Since internet is very accessible to all, privacy concerns for people and companies is important to protect. However, there will be exemptions to privacy concerns when technology increases the user experience and make it easier to use internet. Other cases of exemptions will be when it greatly benefits the functioning of society and such examples include the health sector and rescue services.
Background
Helping geniuses! Our slogan sums up whom Somerco aims to help. are a company that target to help researchers and innovators so that these geniuses can create prosperity jobs in society. In this paper, I discuss a Digital Magna Carta, as proposed by Tim Berners-Lee. My focus area is how our user experience on internet affects privacy rights on internet and the necessity for society functions and science with restrictions to have access to people’s digital footprint. Therefore, there is need for exemptions when it concern people’s privacy rights on Internet.
Introduction
Our father of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, is backing a road map called Digital Magna Carta that aims to ensure everyone have the right free access WWW and a protection of their privacy. I believe it is interesting to discuss if the Magna Carta could be foundation for our goals with a digital society. A worldwide Digital Magna Carta has plenty of advantages when it concerns people’s right to access Internet. Similar basic principles for all companies enable easier trade between them and will also help social exchange. For people, access to the WWW is a necessity so they can reap all the benefits a digital society can provide. It is also very important that people and companies can rely on legal rights to protect their privacy information. However, it is not so black and white to just apply in reality, which I give examples on then discuss potential solutions to these challenges.
Also the D-CENT project, where Tim Berners-Lee are involved, a Europe-wide project creating privacy-aware tools and applications for large-scale collaboration and decision-making are working on solutions to give people access internet and secure our privacy rights internet. Here are a few ideas the project raise for questions:
 Could we overcome linguistic, political, and cultural barriers in order to mobilize around issues of net neutrality and pervasive surveillance?
 How can we design both a technological platform and social process in way that overcomes rather than increases barriers to inclusion?
 How can we get the participation of those who are disconnected or otherwise excluded from the Internet itself, majority of world?1
Perhaps, my discussion best fit into the last two bullet points.
A Digital Magna Carta for everyone is an interesting concept, but there will be exemptions in our
1Crowdsourcing a Magna Carta for the Web at Internet Governance Forum. http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/09/crowdsourcing-a-magna-carta-for-the-web-at-the-internet- governance-forum/

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privacy rights that we will accept voluntarily or not. So the issue is: Who should have the right to access and use our private digital footprint?
Exemptions in privacy – technology and user experience
When it concern person’s right to privacy on internet there are a few issues that needs be explained. Internet companies use our private information in order to enhance user experience. To achieve this they use, develop and improve technologies and below I discuss a few.
Cookies
In principle, all websites, as newspapers, use cookies to save our private information because it enhances the user experience. In Europe, we have to accept or not that cookies are being installed on our devices as computers. If we do not accept cookies, many websites can still be used, but with no historical matching between us and our previous page visits the user experience decreases. It could mean that we do not have suggested links to pages we visited earlier.
Besides installing cookies, there is other ways we give private companies access to our information. I focus on discussing privacy rights regarding social media companies and private persons. Then I move on to search engines.2
Social media
It is easier to accept that we give up some of the privacy rights when we have to agree a terms agreement, for instance on social media platforms. Here we sign-up and log-in. Social media companies use our private information from profiles in order to automatically match members. For instance, if someone is interested in pole fishing they can get suggested to contact another member with the same interest. The suggestion applies for matching between companies and professionals. Social media also use information from our profiles when they match us to ads. Also this is easier to accept when you need log-in and agree to a terms of agreement.
A different situation occurs when we do searches on social media as Youtube without logging-in and agree to a terms of agreement. After some initial searches we get matched with content that has interested us before. The matching of content is with the devices unique IP-address. It is an example when a company use our private information without us signing up to their service. The question is: do you then need to consider any privacy rights? The answer is yes, if we use our own PC with its unique IP-address then we need to consider our privacy rights. While the answer is no, if we are at an Internet café or at a public free access PC then others will not know what person that is using Youtube.3
When it concerns social media, our privacy concerns are now narrowed down to when we use our own devices with its IP-addresses in combination that we do not need to sign-in and accept a term of agreements and no cookie installation has been done. This is actually a likely scenario that for legal reasons are interesting to discuss. If there is a need to find technical solution it can be discussed by a project as D-CENT.
Search engines
As long as we have installed one browser as Mozilla we can get access to internet and our favourite search engine. If consider the big search engines we do not log-in into an account before doing
2 Perhaps, someone else could add-on to the discussion when it concerns the hosting company's access to our private information.
3 Perhaps, I should mention that there is public free access PCs to use. It is different from a library where you log-in with your library card.

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searches. It means, we have another type of privacy concerns to those companies. Think Bing, Yahoo, Google, Safari, Baidu, Yandex and so on. The keywords we type into these search engines are matched with links to content on internet. Besides the matching these links, search engines use these private searches and match us with ads that are not always requested by us.
To continue, there are no privacy concerns to consider if we use someone else PC, Mac, tablet and so on. So for the one who do searches privacy concern is when we use our devices with its unique IP-address. Moreover, it is already possible to have a choice not let search engines collect private information about our searches. There is a well-functioning search engine called DUCKDUCKGO that does not track your searches and their reason is they want to protect searchers privacy.
Exemptions in privacy – development of society
Besides, when internet companies use our private information for their research and development, also other companies and governmental agencies should be considered to given access to this information. But only if it will have a decisive meaning for the functioning of society. Moreover, it should be well founded in law and a very important consideration needs to be made. The consideration is that the access rights to your private information might be approved, but the conclusions should not necessarily be accessible for anyone. How is this transcending into the health sector and to the rescue service?
Health sector
I use two examples from the health sector in order to discuss exemptions in our privacy right for internet.
Let us, consider Ebola that has been framed as a serious health problem. For scientist to find new treatment to this horrific disease, it is beneficial enable our private information to be shared between different countries health organisations without our consent. It is to a great extent already happening. In these cases, important exchange of information cannot be hindered by privacy rights in a Digital Magna Carta for internet due to that exemption is not specified properly. Moreover, it already exist social media that is specialized on the health sector and here they share pictures of people with diseases. The reason is to discuss treatment and contribute science projects. Perhaps, it needs to be ensured that the pictures of these people are made anonymous if these people have not agreed otherwise?
A more intricate scenario is if the health sector also should be allowed to have a similar access social media, as Pixabay, Renren and Flickr, where people voluntarily has joined and share their personal pictures without thinking about having help finding diseases. Is it feasible for the health sector to search these pictures in order find people who might have skin cancer and suggest treatment and to conduct science? It raises the question: When does one regulation trump over a private company's privacy concerns for its users? I do not hold an answer, but it should be discussed between the health sector, social media companies, its members, scientists, lawyers in civil liberties and human rights so on. The ideal is a solution that cover EU and beyond.
Rescue services
For the benefit of a functioning society rescue services had for quite some while have access to our digital print by being able to track us through our mobile phones. It is considered be helpful in rescue mission for lost people and locating accidents without any specific given address. Here it is our wifi or where latest call was made that helpful.
When it concern social media as Twitter, Pinterest and Dailymotion people upload and share their photos of family and friends, but these images might have a dual interest that is of interest for the rescue service. Should the rescue service be allowed to monitor social media as these for information that can help them find signs of potentially polluted areas?

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Benefit for society
I used both the health sector and rescue services to highlight that third parties will benefit greatly if they are allowed to have access to our private pictures and texts. I believe if anyone should be allowed exemptions to our privacy rights on internet it has to be great benefit for the functioning of society. The discussion needs to focus on who should be granted this enhanced access to our personal privacy rights on internet. And also how much access should they be given?
Final remarks
A Digital Magna Carta is considered to help us draw more corners of the earth toward a digital society. More people will then be able to reap the rewards it provides. One of greatest benefits with internet is that it is very accessible to all. However, this accessibility also means our privacy rights needs to be protected. Still, there is need for exemptions in these privacy rights in order for a digital society to function. In EU and beyond we also find an interest when it concern protecting people’s privacy rights on internet. The issue is when should who have the right to access and use our private information. I hope have contributed to the discussion of a Digital Magna Carta and that the issues I raised can be used by you, me, EU and others.

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Draft proposals
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 1 – Designated tax to science
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 2 – Strategy to support the software industry
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 3 – Actions to support women in ICT
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 4 – Going abroad–Competitive assets
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 5 – Business incubators, financial recycling and
incentives into reward
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 6 – Standardization as a tool to increase
competitiveness
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 7 – Different types of innovations
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 8 – Open source from science to society
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 9 – Crowd sourcing and crowd funding
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 10 – Green VAT for business
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 11 – Keep talent in Europe
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 12 – Research leftovers
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 13 – Science Parks - Specializations
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 14 – Patent trolls
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 15 – Science e - Parks
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 16 – Expansion options
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 17 – The locally developed infrastructure
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 18 – Treaty (Knowledge transfer)
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 19 – Different types of infrastructure
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 20 – Build infrastructure (In progress)
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 21 – Energy infrastructure (elsewhere) In progress)
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 22 – Quick market entry (Medical)
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 23 – Innovation, Commercialization, Growth
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 24 – External energy dependencies
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 25 – Old innovations
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 26 – The non-IP Parks
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 27 – Digital inequality into prosperous society
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 28 – Digital Magna Carta – exemptions in privacy
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Part 29 – The networked subsidiarity (In progress)
Enhance the competitiveness of EU member states Overview – Old and new key areas in order to increase
the competitiveness of industry (In progress)
Input on threats against information society