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Some say that privacy will disappear in this century anyway. Nice book about it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_Nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D

• bowlofpetunias 13y ago
  The short abstract at Wikipedia states the opposite if what you're stating: "His most important point is that the right to privacy is a constitutionally protected right and it does not have to be traded away for our way of life." Unlike other forms of "progress", the disappearing of privacy is very much a choice. Yes, we're on the back foot at the moment when it comes to regulating the way technology is (ab)used, but those of us with a functioning democracy still have ample opportunity to fight back. Also: "He calls the government to take a stand for privacy by establishing an agency that will enforce privacy laws and act as a representative of individual privacy." I presume this is an American perspective. Each EU country for instance is obliged to have such an agency.
  • Gormo 13y ago
    >> "He calls the government to take a stand for privacy by establishing an agency that will enforce privacy laws and act as a representative of individual privacy." > Each EU country for instance is obliged to have such an agency. This sounds like a good way to create a centralized clearinghouse for abuse and corruption via regulatory capture. The viable solution here will be to develop and use technologies that protect privacy as part of their inherent design; relying on the oversight of bureaucracies, especially political ones, to protect privacy just isn't going to work.
    • DanBC 13y ago
      I want to subscribe to a print magazine. I send my payment to them, with my name and address. Each month they send me a magazine. At the end of the year they send me a couple of reminders. What technologies will protect my information? Here, the magazine has to register. They need to say what information they're collecting, and why. There are penalties if they then do other stuff with the information.
      • Gormo 13y ago
        Your name and address are already matters of public record, anyway. This is hardly the kind of data that we're talking about. For important, sensitive data - the kind of stuff that could someone could use to blackmail or manipulate you - the relevant technology is cryptography. The bureaucratic solution will inevitably end in anyone you send any data to being required by law to transfer the data itself to a central government-run data store which will make PRISM look trivial in comparison.
        • DanBC 13y ago
          I was responding to this - >> Each EU country for instance is obliged to have such an agency. > This sounds like a good way to create a centralized clearinghouse for abuse and corruption via regulatory capture. The EU has these agencies. You said > The bureaucratic solution will inevitably end in anyone you send any data to being required by law to transfer the data itself to a central government-run data store Which hasn't happened in the EU.
          • Gormo 13y ago
            > Which hasn't happened in the EU. As far as you know.