[ExI] privacy again

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2016-03-02 21:13, Tara Maya wrote:
>
> A nude video being taken is a huge violation. It’s a form of sexual 
> assault. It’s not some funny little prank.

The problem is that it depends on who it is. BillK is likely entirely OK 
in joking about a hypothetical Spike video, while to others a nude video 
can indeed be a sexual assault and is no joking matter at all. A lot of 
it depends on whether one belongs to a vulnerable group, or how the 
video is spread.

It seems that the key issues is (1) a nude video means the intimate 
sphere has been made public, having a chilling effect on it even when 
there is no risk of outside peeking (this can be made even worse by 
outsider malicious comments - they can put their barbs more closely to 
the skin, so to say), and (2) the lack of control over the released 
information - integrity is about being able to control your information, 
and once it is out there you cannot do much to regain it in that domain.

The problem with these is that neither can be remedied well with 
technology or law. Adding astronomical fines will not deter people if 
they think they can get away with it. Many intimate videos are made for 
consumption inside a relationship, but leak out anyway. "A right to be 
forgotten" is complicated to achieve outside a social context.

One day we may build the cryptographic memory-DRM society of the 
Oubliette in "A Quantum Thief". But until then it will be hard to do 
something general and effective.

-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University

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