Successive UK governments have seen data protection more as a cost overhead to be minimised than as an essential protection for the individual in an electronic age. This view started with Margaret Thatcher’s first government and has endured for over three decades. Read the full commentary by Amberhawk Training on The Register.
Category: Misc
Art exhibit pushes boundaries of online privacy
Associated Press has this interesting report on an art exhibit meant to provoke thought: Image after image splashes on the wall of the art exhibit — a snapshot of young people laughing and drinking, a picture of an elephant, an exposed belly of a woman barely covering her breasts with one arm. The photos were…
Quote of the Day
If you care about privacy, and you’re not worried about security, then you’re like a baby turtle, just hatched, hurtling your way to the sea, oblivious to the seagull that’s about to extinguish your young life. — Peter Fleischer
Does privacy protect “the right to fail”? — and, the vexing problem of privacy harms.
Babak Siavoshy writes: The most vexing failure of privacy scholarship, in my opinion, is that “privacy advocates” have failed to articulate in simple terms (to the public or any other audience) the value of privacy and the harm from undermining it. I’m not suggesting I can solve this problem, but I have some thoughts about…