TY - JOUR
AU - Walsh, Toby
AB - AI & SOCIETY https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01433-y CURMUDGEON CORNER Toby Walsh Received: 3 August 2021 / Accepted: 10 March 2022 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2022 Vince Cerf told the Federal Trade Commission in 2013 that and limited resource. Data is neither very precious nor very “privacy may actually be an anomaly”. He justified this bold scarce. Oil can only be used once. Data can be re-used with- claim with the observation that “Privacy is something which out limit. Indeed, unlike oil, data can often be used to gener- has emerged out of the urban boom coming from the indus- ate more data. trial revolution.” There is a certain truth to his claims. Our conception of privacy has changed greatly across time and space. Even 1 AI and privacy limited to a single culture, we see significant differences in privacy across history. Back in medieval England, for But perhaps the biggest difference between oil and data is in example, life was a lot less private. Most people could not ownership. Countries quickly claimed ownership of the oil afford to live in houses with separate living and bedrooms. beneath our feet and under our seas. But 
TI - Will AI end privacy? How do we avoid an Orwellian future
JF - AI & Society
DO - 10.1007/s00146-022-01433-y
DA - 2023-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/will-ai-end-privacy-how-do-we-avoid-an-orwellian-future-AMUm2rmagx
SP - 1239
EP - 1240
VL - 38
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -