Keeping Our Secrets? Designing Internet Technologies for the Public Good

Journal article

The ongoing development of computing, communications and storage technologies presents a challenge to privacy protection, given the increasing ease with which personal data can be collected, analysed, stored and shared. Computer scientists have developed “privacy by design” techniques such as data minimisation, which help to enforce the data protection and privacy safeguards contained in national legal frameworks and international human rights instruments. Such techniques provide a template for societies that wish to ensure the continued protection of core social values in an increasingly technology-mediated world.

Authors: Brown, I

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Thomson Reuters (Professional) UK Limited
• Journal: European Human Rights Law Review
• Volume: 4
• Pages: 368-377
• Publication date: 2014-01-01
• Edition: Updated Publisher's version
• Language: English
• Keywords: Information technology; Mobile telephones; Personal data; Portable computers; Privacy; Public interest
• Subjects: Human rights