Eric Klinker, CEO of BitTorrent, writes: …. Privacy won’t be solved in court. But it can be solved with code. The Internet platforms that you rely on do not need to store your data. If search, syncing, and social media platforms used distributed technologies, privacy would be hardcoded. Distributed protocols work the way the Internet was…
Category: Misc
Companies Developing Crowd Analysis Programs To Detect ‘Abnormalities’ In Behavior And Match Faces Against Giant Databases
Glyn Moody writes: One of the reasons that the total surveillance programs of the NSA and GCHQ are possible is that computers continue to become more powerful and cheaper, allowing ever-more complex analyses to be conducted, including those that were simply not feasible before. Here’s another example of the kind of large-scale monitoring that is now…
Privacy implications of facial recognition back in the spotlight
Jessica Guynn reports: U.S. policymakers are taking a closer look at facial recognition, thrusting privacy concerns over the controversial technology back into the spotlight. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a division of the Commerce Department, said Tuesday it planned to study the technology and its use in the private sector. The announcement comes after…
Encryption ethics: who’s responsible for privacy?
Adam Henschke writes: Ex-National Security Agency (NSA) employee Edward Snowden’s various leaks – the most recent being a slide showing that the NSA infected 50,000 of computer networks with remote-controlled spyware – confirm that state intelligence agencies around the world have been collecting and analysing people’s behaviour online for years. Many people now feel that their online privacy and…