A Year Spent Virtually: The Lasting Effect of the COVID Pandemic on Privacy
summary
Panel argues the pandemic accelerates a permanent digital shift and exposes concrete harms: intimate imagery complaints jump 250% rise in Australia, sextortion cases are tripling globally, and there are roughly 9,500 sites monetizing nonconsensual images. Regulators push GDPR-style rules, states pass privacy laws, and big platforms plan a third‑party cookie phase-out. The concrete prescription is clearer guard rails — de‑identification, aggregation, civil‑rights enforcement — so researchers can use sensitive health and demographic data without enabling new discrimination.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:00Are we giving up privacy because we need data
- 6:30A year of privacy harms
- 11:10Is privacy law needed
- 18:00The impact of the pandemic
- 22:30The challenge
- 30:15guardrails
- 37:20final word
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