Ian Brown (University of Oxford – Oxford Internet Institute) has posted Keeping Our Secrets? Designing Internet Technologies for the Public Good (European Human Rights Law Review 4: 368-377, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The ongoing development of computing, communications and storage technologies presents a challenge to privacy protection, given the increasing ease with which personal data can be collected, analysed, stored, and shared. Computer scientists have developed “privacy by design” techniques such as data minimisation, which help to enforce the data protection and privacy safeguards contained in national legal frameworks and international human rights instruments. Such techniques provide a template for societies that wish to ensure the continued protection of core social values in an increasingly technology-mediated world.