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Today, the US, Canada, and a host of European countries are celebrating the second annual Data Privacy Day. In honor of Data Privacy Day, we are re-presenting Digital Natives project intern Kanupriya Tewari's video about one's "digital dossier," inspired by the privacy chapter in John Palfrey and Urs Gasser's Born Digital:

 

For more on privacy from the Digital Natives project check out their blog posts on digital privacy and digital identity. Also, last spring the project convened a roundtable on identity and privacy online (with video). And for more videos from the Digital Natives Project, check out all the pieces produced to date for the Reporters in the Field series.

More -- a sample of recent considerations of privacy from around the Berkman network:

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Youth and Media

Youth and Media (YaM) encompasses an array of research, advocacy, and development initiatives around youth (age 12-18) and digital technology.

OpenNet Initiative

A collaborative project between the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto; the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; and…

Surveillance

The Surveillance project is drawing a map of the different forms and impacts of surveillance online. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation and run in collaboration with our partner…


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Sep 1, 2008

Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives

Based on original research and advancing new theories, leading internet and technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser offer a sociological portrait of the 'Born Digital'…

Mar 30, 2008

The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It

Book Description, from Amazon:     This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that…

Jun 16, 2008

Blown to Bits

Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

Is this utopia? Or the dawning of a 1984/Brave New World horror world? Whatever you call it, it’s happening. What kind of world are we creating? What will it be like to live there…