Aryana Libris

Authors : Rotenberg Marc - Horwitz Julia - Scott Jeramie
Title : Privacy in the modern age The search for solutions
Year : 2015

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Foreword. Few issues today are more widely debated than the impact of technology on privacy. Edward Snowden has kept news organizations busy since his decision to reveal the surveillance capabilities of the National Security Agency. The NSA has gathered up the telephone records of every American, as well as the personal communications of foreign leaders and the Internet browsing records of their citizens. So extraordinary is the data-gathering capability of the NSA that the agency has budgeted millions of dollars just for air-conditioning to keep cool its giant supercomputers. But it is not only a spy agency that inspires headlines. Target lost the credit card records of 40 million American consumers in a data security breach. Home Depot beat that record and lost 56 million records. Advertising software tracks users across the Internet. Detailed medical records are available for sale. Students are subject to endless testing that generates data subject to endless review. Travelers to the United States are fingerprinted. Small robots patrol schoolyards. And we have still ahead data breaches that involve biometric identifiers, surveillance systems that massively identify people in a crowd, and firms that have leapt from the Internet to track people in physical space and record activities in their homes. There is a temptation when confronted with these stories to utter some version of “Privacy is dead. Get over it.” Popular variants include, “You have no reasonable expectation of privacy,” “What did you expect? You posted it on the Internet,” and “Hey, it’s free. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to use it.” The contributors to this anthology adopted a different strategy. They put fatalism aside and instead of simply describing problems, they set out solutions; they took seriously the dictum of Thomas Edison: “What man creates with his hand, he should control with his head.” It’s a new approach to the privacy debate, one that assumes privacy is worth protecting and that there are meaningful policy responses to pursue. ...