Internet Law and Privacy Issues References
Questy ponders privacy issues blog posts:
Protecting your assets balancing better security versus big brother http://questy.us/blog/protecting-your-assets-balancing-better-security-versus-big-brother
Privacy on the Internet is just wishful thinking http://questy.us/blog/privacy-internet-just-wishful-thinking
New FBI Documents Provide Details on Government’s Surveillance Spyware https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/new-fbi-documents-show-depth-government
House Advances Email Privacy Act, Setting the Stage for Vital Privacy Reform https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/house-advances-email-privacy-act-setting-stage-vital-privacy-reform
OTI to Congress: Block New Government Hacking Proposal https://www.newamerica.org/oti/press-releases/oti-to-congress-block-new-government-hacking-proposal/
Back in 1999, Scott McNealy CEO of Sun Microsystem uttered the famous quote, “You already have zero privacy. Get over it.” Do you think things are any better nearly two decades later?
I know from a long career in telecommunications and computer networking, you have zero privacy.
I don't post my every move on Facebook, and I don't tweet from every restaurant I visit. But I don't go out of my way to run and hide either. I would rather you hear me pitch my view of who I am and why I am on Quora, instead of visiting one of the many websites offering to sell you anything you want to know about me. Even a simple search can turn up previous addresses and unlisted phone numbers.
I have been accused of blatant self promotion from time to time on social media. I admit to it. I feed the internet with information about me. I believe that a strong defense is to lead with a strong offense. That's not a football strategy, that's my view of dealing with social media.
I have written a lot over the years about internet legislation. Right now there are many arguments over net neutrality that stir up privacy issues into the mix, but they are another area in the fight to control the internet.
Are you using an email provider like Gmail? Did you know email stored on a third party's servers for over 180 days is considered to be abandoned, and law enforcement agencies only need to provide a written statement certifying that the information is relevant to an investigation in order to obtain the content of such emails. - See more at: http://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2017/02/the-email-privacy-act.html
There are those who will tell you how you can hide your identity on the internet. I must really be cynical, because I wouldn't trust my life on that assumption, as explained in this Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/10/05/the-nsa-is-trying-to-crack-tor-the-state-department-is-helping-pay-for-it/
Here's a few more articles as well to get you thinking…
Scott McNealy on privacy: You still don't have any http://www.pcworld.com/article/2941052/scott-mcnealy-on-privacy-you-still-dont-have-any
https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/you-are-less-anonymous-web-you-think-much-less
Sun Microsystems chief executive officer Scott McNealy famously said in January 1999, “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
At the time many people were shocked and outraged over Scott McNealy's remarks. As the CEO of the powerful computer company Sun Microsystems, McNealy was simply setting the level of expectations.
https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/
Do you think things are any better nearly two decades later? Any post you have ever made to an online forrum or social media website has the potential to be stored somewhere.
Many people will tell you to use VPNs or suggest various anonymizers in an attempt to make your activity on the Internet untraceable. I must really be cynical, because I wouldn't trust my life on that assumption, no system is fool proof.
The cell phones in our pockets, even the cars we drive, monitor our every movement. Cameras in the city record us as we walk the streets. Many highways and city intersections have traffic cameras that record us as we drive in our cars.
Schools, hospitals, just about every public building, have some type of surveillance system that record our movements inside a building. Companies like Google send robot driven cars through our streets to take pictures of our homes so some stalker can check out the layout of our neighborhood with pictures of our house on Google maps.
There are many resources that you can find to learn how to live “off the grid,” where you blend in with your surroundings, and no one knows you exist. It becomes a lifestyle that most people cannot maintain. Ted Kaczynski, the domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber, was living off the grid in a small remote cabin he had built outside Lincoln, Montana. The government eventually caught up with him.
Yes, I think Scott McNealy's remarks are quite appropriate, “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
Time Warner accused of violating net neutrality http://thehill.com/policy/technology/245811-time-warner-cable-faces-net-neutrality-complaint
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