Bill Davidow writes: We face a stark choice between a potential Orwellian state and lives ruled by cyber-terrorists and cyber-criminals. This choice stems from living in an Internet-driven, overconnected world. Fortunately, by opting for a potential Orwellian state, we give up very little. Mention the words national ID card and you will be attacked by…
Category: Misc
Why “security” keeps winning out over privacy
Daniel Solove writes: Far too often, debates about privacy and security begin with privacy proponents pointing to invasive government surveillance, such as GPS tracking, the National Security Agency surveillance program, data mining, and public video camera systems. Security proponents then chime in with a cadre of arguments about how these security measures are essential to…
Zuckerberg: Privacy anxiety is fleeting
Tom Espiner reports: Facebook services that have increasingly allowed “friends” to keep track of each other have drawn criticism from users, who then begin to use them, Zuckerberg told the e-G8 Forum conference in Paris this week. “We’ll roll it out, and pretty often there’ll be this backlash, and people will say, ok, we don’t…
Future of Privacy Forum Launches App Privacy Site
With hundreds of thousands of online and mobile applications already in use and more being developed, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) today launched a new website to help application developers provide users with privacy protections. Supported by app developers, platforms and tech companies, ApplicationPrivacy.org is the only hub of its kind containing emerging standards,…