The Global Commission on Internet Governance (ourinternet.org) published a statement 15th April 2015 for the Global Conference on Cyberspace meeting in The Hague. It calls on the global community to build a new social compact between citizens and their elected representatives, the judiciary, law enforcement and intelligence agencies, business, civil society and the Internet technical community, with the goal of restoring trust and enhancing confidence in the Internet. This stack frames my contribution to a discussion of the statement at the Web Science Institute event 8th June 2015.

1. Web Science Institute
Privacy and Trust in the
Era of Big Data Analytics
http://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/toward-social-compact-digital-privacy-and-security
Digital Catapult Centre, London, 8th June 2015
Comment on Toward a Social Compact for Digital Privacy and Security,
Global Commission on Internet Governance, 15 April 2015,
by Philip Sheldrake, Euler Partners, hi:project.

2. https://www.flickr.com/photos/number10gov/17905976056
Photo: Crown copyright. Photographer: Arron Hoare. BY-NC-ND
"Do we want to allow a
means of communication...
that we cannot read?"

3. “We shape our tools
and thereafter our
tools shape us.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marshall_McLuhan.jpg
Public domain.

4. “The future is already
here – it's just not
evenly distributed.”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fredarmitage/1057613629
by Frédéric Poirot. BY-SA.

5. technological unevenness
powerasymmetry

6. it will be easy for criminals,
voyeurs and foreign spies
to intercept too
firms must be banned from
producing secure software
search engines must not
return pages carrying
secure software
https://www.flickr.com/photos/61047655@N00/4976756862
By Johan A., BY-SA
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/david-cameron-internet-
surveillance-syria-russia-iran-communication
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/04/david-cameron-snoopers-
charter-will-not-make-us-safer
If we wish to intercept any communication …

7. 100% deep packet
inspection required
all computers restricted
to state-approved
software
physical border security
increased to capture all
unauthorised
technology
all major code repositories
must be blocked
existing walled gardens
(eg, iOS) required to
disallow secure software
virtually all academic
security work in UK must
cease
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/david-cameron-internet-
surveillance-syria-russia-iran-communication
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/04/david-cameron-snoopers-
charter-will-not-make-us-safer

8. SUR
SOUS
SOCIO
CO
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Mann.jpg
By Declan McCullagh, BY-SA
http://www.eyetap.org/papers/docs/IEEE_ISTAS13_Veillance2_Ali_Mann.pdf
http://www.philipsheldrake.com/2014/10/mcveillance-coveillance-and-
socioveillance-in-the-context-of-social-business/

9. http://www.eyetap.org/papers/docs/IEEE_ISTAS13_Veillance2_Ali_Mann.pdf
http://www.philipsheldrake.com/2014/10/mcveillance-coveillance-and-
socioveillance-in-the-context-of-social-business/
Coveillance Socioveillance
Domain Society at large One’s socios – friends and
colleagues, and those one
or two steps removed
Equivalence Veillance equivalence Value equivalence – in
pursuit of mutual
understanding, mutual
influence and mutual value
Openness Open; seeking to 'cancel
out' privacy concerns
Negotiating data exchange
with others’ according to
our respective privacy
policies
Object The disempowering nature
of surveillance
Self-organization

10. The social compact [for a digital
society] will contribute to a new kind of
“collaborative privacy and security.”
Every part of the Internet ecosystem
affects every other part.
”
“
Toward a Social Compact for Digital Privacy and Security,
Global Commission on Internet Governance, 15 April 2015,
http://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/toward-social-compact-digital-privacy-and-security

11. [The compact] is about ensuring that a
framework exists where each actor has
the responsibility to act not only in their
own interests, but also in the interest of
the Internet ecosystem as a whole.
”
“
Toward a Social Compact for Digital Privacy and Security,
Global Commission on Internet Governance, 15 April 2015,
http://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/toward-social-compact-digital-privacy-and-security

12. The focus is rightly on each actor,
recognising that society and its Internet are
complex adaptive systems.
The health and resilience of a living system
(sustainability) requires actors have the facility
to operate intelligently, and such facility is
undermined by poor privacy and security.
http://hi-project.org/2015/03/the-hiproject-and-sustainability/

13. The hi:project exists to make a more human web,
attenuating the challenges and constraints people
experience today when interacting digitally so
that individual empowerment and collective
intelligence are more likely to emerge.
www.hi-project.org
@hiproj