Privacy, Autonomy and Personalized Targeting

Technological advances are bringing new light to privacy issues and changing the reasons for why privacy is important. These advances have changed not only the kind of personal data that is available to be collected, but also how that personal data can be used by those who have access to it. We are...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Whittlestone, Jess, Vold, Karina
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:IE
Repositorio:Repositorio IE
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/2766
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3731242
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/2766
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Autonomy
Autonomía
Personalized Targeting
Orientación personalizada
Personal Data
Datos personales
Privacy
Privacidad
Marketing
Technology
Tecnología
General Data Protection Regulation
GDPR
Regulación General de Protección de Datos
RGPD
Segmentación personalizada
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Sumario:Technological advances are bringing new light to privacy issues and changing the reasons for why privacy is important. These advances have changed not only the kind of personal data that is available to be collected, but also how that personal data can be used by those who have access to it. We are particularly concerned with how information about personal attributes inferred from collected data (such as online behaviour), can be used to tailor messages and services to specific individuals or groups. This kind of ‘personalised targeting’ has the potential to influence individuals’ perceptions, attitudes, and choices in unprecedented ways. In this paper, we argue that because it is becoming easier for companies to use collected data for influence, threats to privacy are increasingly also threats to personal autonomy—an individual’s ability to reflect on and decide freely about their values, actions, and behaviour, and to act on those choices.1 While increasing attention is directed to the ethics of how personal data is collected, we make the case that a new ethics of privacy needs to also think more rigorously about how personal data may be used, and its potential impact on personal autonomy