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This is just one of many indicators that Edward Snowden is right about the importance of privacy in this day and age. With so much of our lives online, and the
by jernfrost 10y ago
This is just one of many indicators that Edward Snowden is right about the importance of privacy in this day and age. With so much of our lives online, and the ability of technology to interpret that information, allowing spying agencies free pass to all your online data, is the equivalent of making it legal for them to install camera's in every room in your house and office.
There needs to be strong privacy rules and transparency on what degree spying agencies access data about random citizens.
We can not leave it completely to technology to solve this issue for us because regular users will never have the competency to understand how to secure their digital presence.
- greggman 10y agoI agree with you .. but, the first thing that comes to mind is comparing the futility of staying private with the futility of stopping piracy. Most tech people seem to believe piracy (music, video) is effectively unstoppable. What makes the end of privacy any different? Of course I want privacy. For current sized cameras I'm pretty sure none are on (not 100% sure though) but as they get smaller and cheaper and people post more and more photos and eventually livecast their lives or at least large chunks of it (it seems like coming eventually whether we want it to or not), how will we stop the end of privacy anymore than we can stop piracy?