FYI, an (I guess?) alternative viewpoint. I've no current position myself on this fwiw but no harm to be aware.
Cheers, S.
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [OTF-Talk] [New Report] The Limits to Digital Consent Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:23:21 -0400 From: Georgia Bullen georgia@simplysecure.org To: Communications communications@simplysecure.org, Cade cade@newdesigncongress.org
Hello!
*tldr:* New Report https://simsec.cc/digiconsent! Please retweet https://twitter.com/simplysecureorg/status/1452609241542537222?s=20.
Last year, Simply Secure and New Design Congress set out to understand the risks of ethical consent and data collection for underrepresented communities in complex data systems. We’re proud to publish and share our findings with you in https://simplysecure.org/resources/The_Limits_to_Digital_Consent_FINAL_Oct2021.pdf our report — *The Limits to Digital Consent: Understanding the risks of ethical consent and data collection for underrepresented communities. https://simsec.cc/digiconsent*
Six key findings emerged from our analysis:
1.
The consent model for tech is outdated. 2.
Local-first data storage is not inherently safer for people. 3.
Data creation, including the potential for data creation, is silencing. 4.
Everyone — not just members of underrepresented communities — is at risk. 5.
Ethical platform designers must consider themselves as the potential bad actor. 6.
People are overwhelmed by both the potential for harm and the indifference of decision-makers.
We see how data accumulation has great power over a person’s agency, their relationships, and the communities within which they operate -- and the associated harms reach almost every human being. Practitioners must therefore examine the systemic shortcomings of digital consent and commit to an ongoing iteration of consent and data governance within platforms. Platform designers and policymakers can no longer assume that collection is safe -- and they must work together to design systems accordingly.
We’d appreciate your help in promoting the report and you can read and download the report here https://simsec.cc/digiconsent, and find the social media promo toolkit here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oQcFPanBcyZiHidgpr_eqNXzIqAypf0uR4c5ltrVB2Y/edit .
*If you can take a moment to retweet, here's our launch tweet: https://twitter.com/simplysecureorg/status/1452609241542537222?s=20 https://twitter.com/simplysecureorg/status/1452609241542537222?s=20*
More sample tweets are available in the social media toolkit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oQcFPanBcyZiHidgpr_eqNXzIqAypf0uR4c5ltrVB2Y/edit !
Thank you!
Georgia
Georgia Bullen* (**she/her/they https://pronoun.is/she)*, @georgiamoon http://twitter.com/georgiamoon Executive Director, Simply Secure
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