Social machines as an approach to group privacy
Social machines as an approach to group privacy
This chapter introduces the notion of social machines as a way of conceptualising and formalising the interactions between people and private networked technology for problem-solving. It is argued that formalisation of such ‘social computing’ will generate requirements for information flow within social machines and across their boundaries with the outside world. These requirements provide the basis for a notion of group privacy that is neither derivative from the idea of individual privacy preferences, nor founded in political or moral argument, but instead related to the integrity of the social machine and its capabilities for bottom-up problem-solving. This notion of group privacy depends on a particular technological setup, and is not intended to be a general definition, but it has purchase in the context of pervasive technology and big data which has made the question of group privacy pressing and timely.
Group privacy, social machines, ethics, data protection, privacy
101-122
O'hara, Kieron
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Robertson, David
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2017
O'hara, Kieron
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Robertson, David
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O'hara, Kieron and Robertson, David
(2017)
Social machines as an approach to group privacy.
In,
Taylor, Linnet, Floridi, Luciano and van der Sloot, Bart
(eds.)
Group Privacy: New Challenges of Data Technologies.
(Philosophical Studies Series)
Cham.
Springer, .
(doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46608-8_6).
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This chapter introduces the notion of social machines as a way of conceptualising and formalising the interactions between people and private networked technology for problem-solving. It is argued that formalisation of such ‘social computing’ will generate requirements for information flow within social machines and across their boundaries with the outside world. These requirements provide the basis for a notion of group privacy that is neither derivative from the idea of individual privacy preferences, nor founded in political or moral argument, but instead related to the integrity of the social machine and its capabilities for bottom-up problem-solving. This notion of group privacy depends on a particular technological setup, and is not intended to be a general definition, but it has purchase in the context of pervasive technology and big data which has made the question of group privacy pressing and timely.
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Accepted/In Press date: 10 January 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 December 2016
Published date: 2017
Keywords:
Group privacy, social machines, ethics, data protection, privacy
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Author:
David Robertson
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Linnet Taylor
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Luciano Floridi
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Bart van der Sloot
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