But I Have Nothing To Hide!

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This section, along with upcoming sections of the course, contains YouTube videos using YouTube's privacy-enhanced embedding. Your IP address will go to Google's servers, but only limited data is sent to Google if you do not play the video. If you do play it, the embedded video will not be added to your viewing history to personalize your recommendations. Is it totally ironic to embed YouTube videos into a course on privacy? Yes. Guilty as charged. Are some of the best resources unfortunately only available on YouTube? Indeed, and that's why they're here.

Privacy 101: It's Your Right

Why should you care about your privacy? You're a good person; you've got nothing to hide, right? Who cares if someone is keeping track of your Google searches? Privacy International would disagree, and so should you. In this video, they introduce privacy as our human right - a right we need to defend.


What is Privacy? by Privacy International (2015). Video hosted by YouTube.

❓ How do the companies you've worked for profit from data? What data do they collect? How do they collect it? What do they do with it, and where does it go next when they're done processing it?

The Power of Metadata

"Knowledge is power; Knowledge about you is power over you. Your information will be used to anticipate your actions and manipulate the way you shop, vote, and think..." - Miles McCain and collaborators

"Even a tiny sample of metadata can provide an intimate lens into a person’s life..." - Electronic Frontier Foundation

"We kill people based on metadata" - General Michael Hayden (USA), 2014

Continue reading at Why Privacy Matters and Why Metadata Matters.

❓ What metadata have you shared about yourself online so far today? Which websites have you visited, and what did you read there? Did you pay close attention to a particular photo, or copy a quote to share with a friend? The trackers saw you.