Chapter 53: Online Privacy
Abstract
Privacy is fading away from the online world, with powerful actors that have worked to invade everyone's privacy for commercial and surveillance purposes. However, limiting the analysis on the role of those actors is overly simplistic because the state of online privacy is the result of many different contributions and an historical trend. In this chapter, we analyze several facets of the lack of online privacy, some idiosyncrasies exhibited by privacy advocates, together with characteristics of the industry mostly responsible of massive data collecting. An issue not sufficiently debated is the asserted effectiveness of data-centered predictive ...
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