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This article misses the main thrust of mass surveillance, in my opinion, and touches on something I've heard few people ever express. Someone that lived in my

This article misses the main thrust of mass surveillance, in my opinion, and touches on something I've heard few people ever express. Someone that lived in my building believed in some aspects of conspiracy theories. For example, he believed that Facebook was backed by the CIA. Why? According to him, if you thought about it, all of that information that they had to spend months digging for was now given to them for free, by upfront admission. The point is that we are willingly giving up our rights to privacy. We are openly using, and promoting to our friends, various sites that expressly user our data for their own means. We are the ones who are printing free copies of the keys to our castle. We are already halfway there. This trend will only get worse, in my opinion, and at the end of the day, we will blame the government, but really it was only us to blame because by openly publishing a large part of our private lives, we imply permission for anyone and everyone to have that information for free.

darkmighty 13y ago
Another argument that goes across this one is wether we can prevent at all essentially having all our lives "deducible" without sacrificing technological progress with two things in mind: a) Demanding better answers or better functionality ultimately relies on surrendering information (information problem) b) Computing power will allow machine-learning algorithms to deduce a lot from very little (computing power problem) Novel crypto may eventually produce solutions to this, but it's unclear. An example, regarding location privacy: http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/locpriv.pdf http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/locpriv.pdf
SkynetSystems 13y ago
>Someone that lived in my building believed in some aspects of conspiracy theories. For example, he believed that Facebook was backed by the CIA. Facebook really was backed by the CIA though (through one of its investment arms) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGdWsxHJlM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGdWsxHJlM

darkmighty 13y ago

Another argument that goes across this one is wether we can prevent at all essentially having all our lives "deducible" without sacrificing technological progress with two things in mind: a) Demanding better answers or better functionality ultimately relies on surrendering information (information problem) b) Computing power will allow machine-learning algorithms to deduce a lot from very little (computing power problem) Novel crypto may eventually produce solutions to this, but it's unclear. An example, regarding location privacy: http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/locpriv.pdf http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/locpriv.pdf

SkynetSystems 13y ago

>Someone that lived in my building believed in some aspects of conspiracy theories. For example, he believed that Facebook was backed by the CIA. Facebook really was backed by the CIA though (through one of its investment arms) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGdWsxHJlM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGdWsxHJlM