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Bruce Schneier on the Death of Privacy

  • 14-10-2010 1:10pm
    #1
    LoLth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭


    In a keynote speech at the RSA conference 2010 bruce Schneier claimed that the days of personal privacy are numbered and its corporations motivated by profit that are the primary drive in its demise:

    BBC article:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11524041
    Google boss Eric Schmidt said, after the row about its StreetView service scooping up wi-fi data: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."


Comments

  • #2
    Penrose
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    True Privacy like True Security is an illusion if you want any of those you need to live in isolation. Living in a society takes away something from Privacy and Security.

    We as the people however can dictate using our votes what can and can't be allowed.


  • #3
    LoLth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    Penrose wrote: »
    True Privacy like True Security is an illusion if you want any of those you need to live in isolation. Living in a society takes away something from Privacy and Security.

    legal privacy, and that being the one that security is concerned with, is not an illusion however and can be breached but should be protected. The issue is not whether privacy exists, it is should privacy exist, and if it should, how do we protect it when technology is outpacing the laws and constitutional rights to such privacy. Most privacy law in ireland is still relating to physical and telephone privacy. Internet privacy, computer based privacy and all it entails is not as well covered by the legal system so its much harder for a security professional to know what is and is not acceptable.
    We as the people however can dictate using our votes what can and can't be allowed.

    And in those , well documented, cases where privacy and data retention laws have never been put to a vote? Or have been deliberated and passed at a level above our own governement? Votes also do not control technological advancement or corporate policy.


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