I don't reckon 'privacy' is the right word to frame the issues around data. It doesn't connect with the unsettled feelings we have with corporate and state collection and use of it. I think the issue is really about power, and through this frame we connect to a range of critical, political and economic ideas that may be more useful to consider. Here's my slides for the University Analytics Forum tomorrow. As with all the presentations I do, these are initial ideas and thoughts that will hopefully generate comments to guide a more focused look. If it goes anywhere, I'll keep notes on a Wikiversity page. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Leighblackall/Data_and_Power

1. DATA& POWER
Artist: Karl Glatt, 1942, title: Refugees. Oil on canvas, 230x200 cm

2. Data it’s not about privacy,
it’s about power...

3. university is not a place of ideas, academic
freedom, discourse or deliberation. It’s not a place
of reason or knowledge, nor is it a safe haven for
the Fourth Estate, activism or civil liberty.
It is a codified, commodified, commercialised
venue of oppressive power - an instrument for
repression and maintaining the status quo.
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4. WHO CAN SEE?
HAL 9000 Anonymous Watchmen

6. http://tincanapi.com/overview
DON’T BE FOOLED...

7. CAN WE SEE?
<ref>Scott McCloud 1993. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. P23</ref>

8. We’re blind to see
“Blind monks examining an elephant” by Itcho Hanabusa 1888

9. William Ivans, Prints and Visual Communication. 1969
John Berger, Ways of Seeing. 1972
Susan Sontag, On Photography. 1977
Bill Nichols, Ideology and the Image. 1991
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics. 1993
Adam Curtis, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. 2011
Mahāvīra, Anekāntavāda. 599–527 BCE
WEDON’TSEE

10. Let me see...
UNIVERSITY OF
• Open data
• Open governance
• Democratic process
GUIDED BY:
• Webism (n+1 editors 2010)
• The means of production (Karl Marx 1848)
• Tools for Conviviality (Ivan Illich 1973)
AND EXAMPLES LIKE
• Tor Project (Roger Dingledine and others 2002)
• Freedom Box (Eben Moglen and others 2010)
• Free software (Richard Stallman 1985)

11. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Il_quarto_stato_(Volpedo).jpg
IT’S NOT ABOUT PRIVACY, IT’S ABOUT POWER
WHO CAN SEE? CAN WE SEE? LET ME SEE!
THE FOURTH ESTATE