# Week 2

# Lecture 1

## Keywords:
- Spider game
- Privacy
- Privacy landscape

## Glossary:
- new concepts, words, or ideas: and their definition, description, ...

## Notes:

The lecture started with a quick revision of the improv games we have looked at so far. The “yes and…”, “fantastic binomial”, and “why” games. Reference was made to another improv game we are going to be introduced to, the “spider” game. We then went over the topic of the lecture to come namely the concepts of privacy and the infosphere.

To introduce the concept of privacy Guilio used the example of a secret diary, this is the example that was used for a large number of the concepts that we discussed. A secret diary is typically a diary that no one else is allowed to read, this in itself is the essence of privacy. However it is important to take note of the key word, ‘allowed’, as in reality with enough time and resources anyone can break into/read it. We also discussed the fact that ‘no one’ often refers to a specific set of people rather than literally no one.

The next concept we considered was whether it was more important whether the diary itself was read, or what someone could actually do with the information. The example of an alien on the moon was used, if an alien manages to read your diary, realistically it means very little to them and outside of principle it is likely not the biggest deal. However, if that alien was able to extract something like your bank details from the diary, and then used these to steal your money, that is a much larger problem.

"Informational privacy deals with the landscape of quantric frictions through information access". Essentially, given enough time and resources, any information is accessable. There exists friction in the changing landscape as information agents access information through varying degrees of difficulty.

Ethical agents have three means of influencing the wider infosphere. Accessing information, producing information, and targeting information (modifying the level of complexity required to access information).

"Okaycupid is a mating website" - Giulio, lol

Privacy (in our information landscape) is not a binary concept. There are shades of privacy and some piece of information that may be considered public in some contexts may be considered private in others. Example: researcher collating lists of sexual preferences based on publically shared information on OKcupid.

# Lab 2

## Keywords:
- list keywords here

## Glossary:
- new concepts, words, or ideas: and their definition, description, ...

## Notes:

A (short or long) summary of what we spoke about in class