Data Privacy and Consent | Fred Cate | TEDxIndianaUniversity

Dr. Fred Cate’s talk revolves around the current approach to data privacy. He analyzes the role that consent plays in data protection and privacy today, grappling with how we manage consent in a world in which data is constantly being inferred about us. In a chaotic world, he emphasizes that it is important that we ask for consent in a meaningful and effective manner. Fred H. Cate is Vice President for Research, Distinguished Professor, and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law at Indiana University. He specializes in information security and privacy law and has testified before numerous congressional committees and served on many advisory groups for companies and governmental and international organizations. He served as the founding director of IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research from 2003 to 2014, where he is now a senior fellow. He is also a senior policy advisor to the Centre for Information Policy Leadership and one of the founding editors of the Oxford University Press journal, International Data Privacy Law.

[aylbdrmadison]

Excellent talk about an extremely important subject. I would add that we absolutely must start requiring companies to use language that everyone can understand, not just the lawyers.

[phenomenalfemale]

A man who references Shakespeare's plays is a wonderful man. Besides this is a very important talk.

[meeraesq]

Dr. Cate articulated everything which I always felt. Thank you. If we need to protect democracy, our country and people's independent thinking, collection of PII should be stopped for the purpose of targeting individuals with an intention to influence.

[nrqyyfu]

It is a video that makes you look back on questions about the use of user personal information.

[JossOrtan]

Great talk by Dr. Fred Cate! The insights on data privacy and consent are very enlightening. How can we improve the way we ask for consent in today's digital age?

[Take_it_E-z]

This raises an important question: Who is liable for a data breach in a cloud computing environment?

[darkenergy]

this is so much more important in the near-post-truth society of today.

[examsanjal]

Really nice information. We all need to know about our privacy in every aspect of our life

[brandonsheffield]

This is one of few TED talks I fully agree with. We need to change the rules. I cant use Adobe if I dont agree to their data sharing rules. Or you cant watch Netflix if you disagree with data privacy rules. A store wouldnt refuse to sell me a mountain dew if I dont agree with tipping the cashier or refusing to round up to donate to a charity.

[remkomooi]

Really enjoyed listening to this talk, and the illusion of users providing true consent in order to use websites/devices is indeed problematic. Everybody clicks on ‘I agree’, practically nobody really reads these privacy statements. I don’t agree, however, with the broader argument that consent itself is a useless legal ground in privacy law.

Under European data protection law, consent is one of six legal bases for processing personal data (the other ones are complying with a legal obligation, legitimate interest, contractual obligations, vital interests, and public interest). If it would be the only one, it would indeed be useless, but it is not. Unlike the speaker stated, consent does not at all tend to exonerate data processors from their legal responsibilities towards the data subject. On the contrary: after consent has been given, the data processor still has to comply with many concrete obligations. This is the case whether data are processed on the basis of consent, or any of the other 5 grounds for processing. In general, I can't see any system of privacy law functioning without an important role for data subject consent. Without that, companies and organizations would be allowed to process data as they see fit, and the situation would truly get out of control.

But I certainly underwrite mr. Cate’s point of consent being a problematic mechanism between consumers and companies providing complicated services (that is why the GDPR is so adement about consent being explicit)!

[shreya]

I think this channel is best...hit like who agree

[snailmail]

if you haven't watched yet do: Data and Disinformation: Investigating Cambridge Analytica (Exposé Documentary) | Real Stories

[John]

I'm infatuated with this. I recently enjoyed a similar book, and I was truly infatuated with it. "The Hidden Empire: Inside the Private Worlds of Elite CEOs" by Adam Skylight

[GrooveYouVerse]

When he said "chagrin" I immediately was reminded about SNL's spelling B sketch lol

[daltongrowley]

Its 9pm do you know where your data is?

[productgeneration]

I believe in Data Privacy and Consent .

[obitouchiha]

I am literally an inventor. I create, a light in a dark universe. The passionate process is rigorous and.. though it may entice, privacy is sacred. I long to elude those committed to starve the world of exquisite capitalistic elegance. The greedy and self-doubting deform my beautiful determination. With time, we degrade. How long will I be virile before the gift is disparaged? Must I repress it til death and subject myself to the mundane hoard? At the very least, some sort of added regulation is needed. Product labels containing a simplified anti-privacy description before a buyer makes a decision.. The fear of what data could be collected, in who's hands it could end up with, and how it could never go away.. The modern world is so predatory.

[KY-blmb]

Just in time for the windows 10 update thing

[thatoneguy]

In the European GPDR, there must be equally attractive options to consent or not consent. There must be equal "allow" and "reject" buttons, however this is extremely badly enforced. This law exists since 2018 and Google only recently implemented an easy "reject" button, with many news outlets using a loophole that allows them to bundle the tracker-free version of articles behind a paywall (e. g. Heise does this: When you first encounter an article from them, you can't read it until you either allowed tracking or subscribed to "Heise Pur", which is seemingly tracker-free, however it costs money and probably still tracks you.)

There's also another loophole known as "legitimate interest", but I won't get into this now.

[Take_it_E-z]

The terms are bad! I wonder what Fred Cate thinks about section 230 of the Community Decency Act...