Katarzyna Szymielewicz - Keynote - Users' privacy is in your hands! | Lambda Days 2019

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KEYNOTE - USERS' PRIVACY IS IN YOUR HANDS!
by Katarzyna Szymielewicz

ABSTRACT
Internet services promise ever faster and more intuitive online experience, often without mentioning real price and risks that come with them. Data leaks are just a small part of the problem. Data generated by algorithms or collected by applications beyond users' control have direct influence on their lives – credit score, job opportunities or exposure to biased news and advertising. GDPR [new data protection regulation] gave users stronger safeguards and new tools to protect their data. Privacy by design is no longer an aspiration - it became a requirement. But it won't become reality without people who build and design technology! Every day you make important choices that have real consequences for users' privacy. Let me convince you to use with power with a sense of responsibility.

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THE SPEAKER - KATARZYNA SZYMIELEWICZ
privacy by design believer

Expert in human rights and technology, lawyer and activist.

Co-founder and president of Panoptykon Foundation – Polish NGO defending human rights in surveillance society. Since 2012 vice-president of European Digital Rights. From 2005 to 2009 associate at international law firm Clifford Chance, specialized in data protection and other regulatory matters. Graduate of the University of Warsaw (Law) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (Development Studies). Stipendist and member of Ashoka – international network of social entrepreneurs.

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If economical players would have some sense for ethical responsibility in the first place and wouldn't sacrifice human integrity and dignity over making maximal profits through deliberate exploitation of anything that could give them an edge on the market as long as it is not legally regulated, quite a lot of time spend for the purpose of just trying to counteract these, in itself destructive patterns of the capitalistic system which doesn't care about the humans that actually keep it alive, could be invested into projects that are aimed to increase the well-being of the bigger part of the people instead of serving these very few persons which are accumulating the capital which could potentially end world hunger, erradicate poverty as well as realizing a global health- and social insurance system for everybody, independent of social status and life situation.

Even though I think that you are only trying to soothe the symptoms instead of targeting the root of the problem..., you did a great job giving this talk.