Your privacy – where has it gone, and will it be back?

<!--HTML-->b'<p class="part"><span><span>In recent years, a lot has been said about privacy &#8211; the rights to it, related transgressions, reasons to worry. It seems like questions are multiplying at a high rate, but the answers are not. Should we be concerned, and if so, about what? Should I defend myself, can I defend myself? From whom? Are we risking fundamental freedoms when using FAANG products? Is privacy the same as anonymity? Is giving up privacy a necessary cost of technological progress? Do I have a choice? Are governments and corporations fighting each other over us or collaborating against us? Is &#8220;my phone&#8221; truly &#8220;mine&#8221;?</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class="part"><span><span>We propose to examine privacy with a dose of systematization and in three parts. In the first part, we&#8217;ll start weaving a story of how we got here. Starting from the baselines, we&#8217;ll journey through history, philosophy and world changes &#8211; from the concept of walls in a house to identity documents. In the second part, we&#8217;ll discuss our current state, where current worries stem from, current developments and options. We&#8217;ll look at what surveillance capitalism means for society (techies and non-techies alike), how our cloud, Android and i-devices grew, and will look at the fringes. In the third part, we&#8217;ll take a closer look at emerging major trends, future scenarios (dystopian and optimistic alike) and concrete possibilities for reaction or resistance. We&#8217;ll also touch on technical topics such as, for example, the war-like evolution of cryptography.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class="part">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class="part"><span><span>Short bio:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div class="WordSection1">\r\n<div><em>Andrzej Nowak spent the last 15 years at the juncture of technology, business and innovation</em><em><span>. His early experience was rooted in computer security, and shifted to more general domains while working for CERN and at Intel. &nbsp;</span>Between 2007 and 2014<span>&nbsp;</span></em><em><span>Andrzej</span><span>&nbsp;</span>worked at CERN openlab - a collaboration of CERN and industrial partners such as Google, HP, Huawei, Intel, Oracle and Siemens</em><em><span>&nbsp;</span><span>&#8211; and managed one of openlab&#8217;s innovation labs</span>. Andrzej was also part of the openlab CTO office, where he helped set up next-generation technology projects for CERN.</em></div>\r\n\r\n<p><em>More recently, Andrzej founded a small technology and innovation consultancy as well as a fintech start-up. In the last few years, he worked in management consulting in finance and in innovation management.</em><em><span><span>&nbsp;</span>Andrzej&#8217;s current topics of interest include the future of identity, privacy, and money.</span></em></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>'