The Third Way to Data Privacy and Sharing –
Concepts, Tools, Applications
There is a “Third-Way” of Negotiating on the Internet between the conflicting extremes of data privacy and security on one side and responsible data sharing and legal government access on the other. The book collects and documents the elements of the approach. The book, however, is incomplete. It will be expanded and modified as the collaborative, open-source project progresses. Thus, the book is attributed to an anonymous author.
The writing of this incomplete volume should be regarded as an open-source, community project. Please contact the anonymous author at the address above about participation in the effort.
- Current draft of book in PDF format.
- Current draft of book in Word Format on OneDrive
- Authorship statement.
Forward
This work starts with a premise, that there is a safe way to integrate computer systems while at the same time balancing civil privacy with the public government’s needs and while balancing security restrictions with the sharing imperative. Accepting the premise, we can envision a future where people and systems cooperate better. Better cooperation will advance our technological-dependent civilization. A reconciliation of private and public concerns will make citizens more comfortable with a state powerful enough to pursue an aggressive national agenda.
Although the subject lies in the future, this book is not fiction. It is computer science. With the technology described here, we will build a future world better than any you can extrapolate from contemporary practices and standards. It hasn’t happened yet. It hasn’t been tried yet. Thus, the book runs on a line between fact and fiction, but it requires no new science, only implementation and deployment.
I plan to hand you the basic keys to the “new” computer technology. You can take the term “new” under a suspension of disbelief because the components are old and well known. We mix them together and something new emerges. We expect mixing these software components will show an unprecedented emergent property: a high level of successful, cooperative activity conducted in a broad society of computers surpassing anything achieved to date.That anyhow is the vision. The book provides concepts, tools and examples. In addition there are placeholders where governance, social, issues could be added by knowledgeable contributors.