Journalists covering digital public sphere/privacy/politics topics: security, privacy and data strategy and business model are quite distinct. Sometimes, they are at odds in terms of available choices. Important to understand these distinctions.
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Google and Facebook are among the best in the world for security, for example, but not necessarily privacy. Signal combines both, as far as we can tell. Some private communication channels don’t seem very secure. Etc.
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There is stuff fiddling with settings helps; there’s stuff that a good security team helps; privacy-by-design always helps (but isn’t without some trade-offs); and then there’s stuff settings and teams can’t mitigate.
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Being careful with explanations helps because conceptual clarity helps identify the political and economic dimensions of the issue—subject to democratic governance—and also consider what kind of technical investment/infrastructure is needed.
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Question you might be able to answer: It's been reported that FB data could be matched to voter rolls. Was the personal data not scrubbed, protected with double-blind controls, or captured as aggregate info? Thanks for doing what you do.
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