Bio:
Blaine Price was educated in Canada but has spent 20 years in the UK as a Computer Science researcher and consultant. He is a Senior Lecturer in Computing at The Open University where his research interests include Privacy, Computer Forensics and IT Law. He supervises PhD students on subjects such as privacy control on mobile devices and scientific analysis of malware. He is a co-investigator on the UK-based PRiMMA project on Privacy Rights Management for Mobile Applications and he is currently running studies on privacy and persuasive computing aspects of lifelogging technologies.
Lifelogging and Continuous Activity Sharing: emerging and future risks
Abstract:
Public awareness of the privacy risks from common social networking tools has finally started to increase, but so has the rate of new tools and technologies being deployed. Many devices aimed at improving individual health, fitness, security, wellbeing, the environment, and travel planning are coming on the market already enabled to broadcast their data to existing or future social networking applications. In this talk I will summarize the benefits and risks from current and emerging lifelogging technologies found by the joint expert group drawn from academics and industry. I will outline the scenario we used to characterize the risks and conclude with our recommendations for transparency and user control, security and privacy by default, and competition.