Digital tech companies need to be more open to protect our privacy and online data

Citation

Lin Y (2018) Digital tech companies need to be more open to protect our privacy and online data. The Scotsman. 20.03.2018. https://www.scotsman.com/future-scotland/tech/yuwei-lin-digital-tech-companies-need-to-be-more-open-to-protect-our-privacy-and-online-data-1-4708181

Abstract
What the Strava incident has taught us is that it is impossible to get a ­flawless service. Crowd-sourced, user-generated data, despite being anonymised, aggregated, de-identified and ­processed, can still be ­computed and exploited by applying common sense to analyse the visualised heatmaps. We need to continue to test and question the boundary of privacy and security. When technologies are blackboxed and proprietary, when information about the service is not transparent, ­challenges from ‘citizen ­hackers’ are more important than ever to reveal the dark sides of such social technologies.Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/future-scotland/tech/yuwei-lin-digital-tech-companies-need-to-be-more-open-to-protect-our-privacy-and-online-data-1-4708181

Keywords
data privacy; hacker ethics; data literacy; Strava; fitness apps; Heatmap;