Sunday, June 25

19:00	Welcome reception
20:30

Monday, June 26

08:00	Breakfast
08:45	Opening, Practical Information
09:00	Round of Introductions
11:15	Coffee/Tea Break
11:30	Instruction and Soft Goals
12:45	Lunch
13:45	Lecture 1: Bart Preneel: Hiding in Plain Sight: Location Privacy for the IoT
16:00	Coffee/Tea Break
16:15	Lecture 2: Aphra Kerr: Finding Common Ground in the Design of IoT Applications in Everyday life
18:30	Free Time
18:45	Dinner
20:30	Case study group assignments

Tuesday, June 27

08:00	Breakfast
09:00	Lecture 3: Michael Veale: Confidentiality Washing With PETs: A Little Guide for Big Platforms
11:15	Coffee/Tea Break
11:30	Work on case studies
12:45	Lunch
13:45	Work on case studies
16:00	Coffee/Tea Break
16:15	Touch base with own discipline from case study groups (lecture 4 cancelled)
18:30	Free Time
18:45	Dinner/BBQ
21:00	Rump session

Thursday June 29 we go out for diner at restaurant "De Hemel" (Heaven) in downtown Nijmegen.

We convene in the lobby of the hotel at 18:45 to go by bus together. Bus tickets will be provided.

Bart Preneel: Hiding in Plain Sight: Location Privacy for the IoT

Currently about 20 billion IoT devices have been deployed and this number will likely double in the next 5 years. These devices bring an enormous potential in terms of new services, but at the same time creates an infrastructure in which every person and object is continuously geolocated. In this lecture we look at a number of cases for which privacy-friendly protocols have been developed that offer valuable (distributed) services. Indeed, it is possible to get the benefits from a widely deployed infrastructure without revealing highly sensitive data on the location of users. We consider as examples insurance pricing, road pricing, proximity detection (contact tracing) and object tracking.

Aphra Kerr: Finding Common Ground in the Design of IoT Applications in Everyday life

We live in a generalised culture of surveillance - from our homes to our cities - however the conditions of our engagement in this culture vary widely (Lyons, 2018). Surveys of the public in Europe consistently show that privacy, safety and transparency are significant issues in relation to the generalised acceptance of AI driven digital technologies (Kerr et al., 2020), while the same three issues were included in the seven key ethical issues from the High-Level Expert Group on AI HLEG-AI (Paladino, 2021). However, the implementation of these public expectations and normative principles has proved to be challenging, both for the designers of the services and their users. This is particularly the case in relation to digital services and applications and in relation to certain groups of users, including youth and children. The internet of things raises a number of ethical and social challenges from a design and user perspective. Finding common ground in relation to shared values, shared goals and transparent forms of participation will be crucial to their acceptance (Kerr and Kelleher, 2020). In this lecture we will explore examples from smart cities, the media and the internet of toys and discuss possible interdisciplinary methods and tools for creating common ground and addressing some of the ethical and social challenges raised.

Michael Veale: Confidentiality Washing With PETs: A Little Guide for Big Platforms

A combination of regulatory, software, hardware, and societal factors have led to a sharp growth in international interest around privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). This interest is found just as strongly in governments, regulators, and platforms – but are they all talking about the same thing? In this talk, I will try to break down some of the ways in which PETs can be used and abused, drawing attention to the close connection between the platform business strategy and new opportunities for profiling and value extraction offered by PETs and confidential computing. These technologies are particularly interesting in light of the growing ubiquity of connected senses in our environment, and the control over the ability to ask questions of the sensors is likely to be one of the big challenges of our time. Their use highlights the importance of theoretical distinctions within and around the concept of privacy which create tensions between different disciplinary perspectives. We will take a tour through some of the legal rights that may apply, and consider some of the regulatory and governance gaps that exist. We will also question the sanctity of protection of encryption, as encryption morphs from protection of confidentiality of interpersonal communications into a much more open-ended technology than it ever has before.

Didem Özkul: Locational privacy: Key issues, concerns, and approaches

Location data and locational privacy play a significant role in pervasive ubiquitous communication and media systems. While some communication systems rely on the location of the user to deliver relevant media content, empower users’ by providing them with opportunities to participate and co-create maps, or help users solve privacy issues through location-based verification, collection, use, and analysis of location data is still a problematic issue. It is not only problematic due to the uniqueness and difficulties in anonymising location data, but also because of the extent of which location data is used and integrated to algorithmic decision-making and governance practices especially for controlling physical and communicative mobilities. Users’ perspectives including their understanding, concerns, and management of locational privacy play a significant role in informing legal and regulatory frameworks. This lecture will discuss how we can understand locational privacy and what kinds of approaches we can employ for researching location data and locational privacy in highly complex digital environments. It will also focus on how we can work with the users as research partners to tackle the issues around locational privacy with a particular focus on mobile communication technologies.