Privacy with computing technology

Technology usage is problematic for privacy

• Technology usage (always) creates information

  • Data: information explicitely created by subjects

  • Metadata: control, addressing and descriptive information resulting from interactions between systems

• Computers process information at high speed

  • Damage is done very rapidly and silently, across the globe

• Computers may be used to store massive amounts of data

  • Which can be leaked

Is it possible to use technology without providing personal data?