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Hi. My name is Amalia Barthel.
I'm an advisor, consultant,
and educator in the
areas of digital risk,
digital data risks, privacy,
compliance, and governance.
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In this talk
technologies of now and
the future that companies
should focus on,
we will start with
a little bit of the
history of technology and
understanding how that has
evolved into our
digital world today.
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What is technology? Our answer
can start at the
Gutenberg press.
Since 1450, humanity was
able to make copies of
documents that in
many cases contain
personal details of people
who are still alive.
The dissemination
of any printed word
good or bad was now possible.
Technology invention innovation
and risk go hand in hand.
Fast forward 400 years
and there were people in
various states in
the United States
who read the paper in public.
What was printed in the paper
anything and everything.
But once the written
word was spoken it
became the truth with
powerful consequences.
In 1888, George Eastman
invented film that could be
put on a spool reloaded,
and easy to handle cameras and
sold much like today's
disposable cameras.
The technical innovation
of this new film and
packaging allowed for cameras
to become more
portable or mobile.
The precursor of
mini mobile cameras
in your phone was invented.
These technical advances
widened the range
of subject matter
available to photographers
to include people who
did not necessarily
desire their behavior or
image to be captured on film.
This prompted two
prominent legal minds
in the United States
Samuel Warren and
Louis Brandeis to write
the still-quoted Today article
"The Right to Privacy."
In 1890 and published in
the Harvard Law
Review 4 number 193.
They sensed a danger and that
the society at large was
dealing with the risk for
which there were no laws.
I would like for
my colleagues in
information security to
acknowledge right now and
thank privacy for raising
the alarm about a risk
to the intimate life of
an individual being
exposed in print or
captured in a photograph
without their knowledge
or permission,
which we later called consent.
It is these technology
advancements and
other cultural customs during
1,900 years of evolution
that prompted the delegates
of the United Nations
that in 1947 to embed a right to
information privacy
in Section 12 of
the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, "No one
shall be subjected to
arbitrary interference
with his privacy,
family, home or correspondence
nor to attacks upon his
honor and reputation.
Everyone has the right
to the protection of
the law against such
interference or attacks."
