Lethal in small doses : environmental metaphors for privacy protection in the infosphere
Schafer, Burkhard and Nash, Callum and Moncur, Wendy and Briggs, Jo and Nicol, Emma and Azzopardi, Leif (2022) Lethal in small doses : environmental metaphors for privacy protection in the infosphere. In: Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN) 1st Annual Conference, 2022-04-21 - 2022-04-22, Stirling Highland Hotel.
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Abstract
Luciano Floridi coined the term infosphere to update the concept of the "ecosphere" for the information society. Just as with the ecosphere, the infosphere is a fragile environment where ruthless commercial practices can cause lasting economic degradation. Mining for data can in this sense be seen as harmful as mining for tin, and if "big data" is really the new oil, then we must be wary of ruthless data barons causing data spills. The paper reports some of the findings and research of an EPSRC funded project on "cumulative revelations", the risks that are generated through seemingly small and individually innocuous disclosure of information, which nonetheless over time accumulates critical potential. We explore how we can use ideas and concepts from environmental science and environmental law to think of better ways to create sustainable data infrastructures in the presence of such "de-minimis" risks that are ill catered for in traditional risk-based approaches to regulation
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Schafer, Burkhard, Nash, Callum, Moncur, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1485-4723, Briggs, Jo, Nicol, Emma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1729-1345 and Azzopardi, Leif;-
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Item type: Conference or Workshop Item(Other) ID code: 80830 Dates: DateEvent21 April 2022Published17 November 2021AcceptedSubjects: Law Department: Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 19 May 2022 14:16 Last modified: 28 Sep 2024 14:22 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/80830