Injustice - Developers Among Us (SciFiDevCon 2024)
Privacy as defence of own information portfolio
1. Privacy
as defense of own
information portfolio
why is worth,
why defense it.
Paolo Pedaletti: Paolo.Pedaletti@OpenLabs.it
Copyright (c) 2011 Paolo Pedaletti
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3. Paolo Pedaletti
Privacy as defense of own information portfolio
Gratis2
In the physical/material world
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“gratis” means an unidirectional exchange of
◦ material (apples gratis, trousers gratis, ...) or
◦ services (cinema gratis, ride gratis, …)
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“by payment” imply the bidirectional exchange of money versus
◦ material (10€ for 10Kg of apple) or
◦ services (hairdresser, accountant, …)
In the informative/digital world, services provided “gratis” are no more unidirectional
services, because implied an exchange, not material neither monetary, but informative.
In the digital world the economy can be based on the only exchange of information:
my email (history/content) exchanged with electronic mail service management (for
example)
The Currency “Information”
In the information era, the currency IS our information (in the most of the cases not alone,
but statistically aggregated).
Our data have different value in function on who knows and handle it.
The information value is not an absolute value,
but is function of the capacity of using it at own advantage.
E=mc2 can be a nonsense sequence of symbols, or an equation to produce energy and to
earn money and power (a lot of energy, money and power).
Our passion for cruises can be no valuable for our neighbor or our employer, but
(aggregated) may be a valuable information for a shipowner that have to decide if to build
a new cruise ship or not (and how big), and for a builder that have to decide where to build
his next holiday village.
gratis services
These precious informations can be easily gained providing “gratis” reservation services or
online maps. Final enduser will provide spontaneously (and often unconsciously) to the
shipowner or to the builder the information necessary to decide what is the better thing to
do. Or better... they will pay the intermediary that provide these services to the final users.
In this sense our information, the information that belong to us, that represent us (our
taste, out behavior, our activities) “it's worth”.
2 I use the term “gratis” instead of “free” because in English free may be misunderstanding with “freedom”
but here I want to mean “without fee”, “for no money”.
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