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The Need for a Personal Digital Privacy Strategy
The tensions between information freedom and personal control are exploding, and not simply because of the benefits of sharing information using new media. Massive commercial and government interests, along with malevolent individuals, have much to gain as each of us reveals highly granular personal information, much of it in the public domain by default.
MaRS Global Leadership Series: New Solutions for a Connected Planet
On Thursday, June 21, at 5:30 p.m. Don Tapscott, who will be giving the opening talk at TEDGlobal 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland, will visit Toronto to present at the MaRS Global Leadership Series. His presentation, “New Solutions for a Connected Planet,” will cover the five principles for the age of networked intelligence and the Global Problem Solving initiative with the World Economic Forum and the Martin Prosperity Institute.
The Social Revolution on Global TV’s Morning Show
The Social Revolution on Global TV's Morning Show
Is privacy an outmoded idea in the digital age?
A growing number of people argue that the notion of having a private life in which we carefully restrict the information we share with others may not be a good idea.
New Solutions for a Connected Planet
From their latest book, Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet, co-authors Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams present groundbreaking innovations from every corner of the globe: how businesses, organizations, and individuals alike are using mass collaboration to revolutionize not only the way we work, but how we live, learn, create, and care for each other.
Macrowikinomics on Guardian’s Top 50 Breakthrough Capitalism Books
Macrowikinomics makes the Guardian's Top 50 Breakthrough Capitalism Books, a crowd-sourced list of 50 books that capture the spirit of breakthrough capitalism.
Big Brother 2.0
Recently the New York Times reported that “Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight.”
Corporations, the Main Beneficiaries of Personal Sharing
The most powerful forces making the case for sharing personal information are not philosophers or media pundits — they are social media companies and other corporations who have a lot to gain from our social norms about privacy changing.
Real Dangers of Thoughtless Sharing
The longer term, societal effects of a general loss of privacy due to ubiquitous data availability and surveillance are not well-understood. The ability to record nearly everything and to make that record available to others is unprecedented in human history, and defeats parallels. What will it be like to grow up in a world that does not forget? Will comments posted online at age 14 discourage people from seeking public office or speaking out years later, out of fear?
Privacy, the Self and Human Relationships
Privacy is nothing if not the freedom to be let alone, to experiment and to make mistakes, to forget and to start anew, to act according to conscience, and to be free from the oppressive scrutiny and opinions of others. It may seem an odd notion today, but initially the Internet was a favorite refuge for many seeking privacy.