Politicians craving
for power is a never ending story all over the world, both in a democratic systems and a dictatorships. It has always been like that. Although classic surveillance
and means of spying existed before the invention of a telephone, mass surveillance is one of those issues that
the newest technology made possible. I would like to emphasize word “mass” because of its
scale on a daily basis. In each place where “smart” devices operate,
data is collected, stored and analysed. For our safety of course. Or is it…
Mass
surveillance doesn’t solve what
it claims to solve. Terrorist attacks occurred, occur and will occur. Maybe
instead of trying to prevent them using unethical means, we should consider the
source of it. Should we take an easy path, give up our freedom for safety and
one day find ourselves in an Orwellian reality.
Do you feel your right to privacy is violated
nowadays?
Do you approve of mass surveillance programs?
Do you care?
Did you know that tools made by governments, funded by
your taxes, made to spy on you, often fall in wrong hands?
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Comments
I'm totally against anything that can harm the internet neutrality. Preventing terrorism is not an excuse for spying, there's a bigger evil that depends on the sanity of the current government or third-parties that will have access to spying tools and systems developed by countries.
Yes, I do care about some things, that's why I don't share it on the internet - I feel no need of submitting photos on facebook. Windows spying? No problem, I do most important things on my Linux anyway. Oh yes, and there is also my phone with Android on it - I'm using custom ROM compiled from source, so I know what is in it :).
People that care about their privacy already have their solutions and are not easy to spy on. Everybody else doesn't care well enough to do anything, so I can't see why I should feel sorry for them. In fact, I'm rather happy since it doesn't affect me that much.
Of course not , in many ways, these programs are financed by taxpayers ' money , and disappears behind the adoption of high-sounding titles of laws as a "struggle against terrorism", and so on. but let's think about how much you know of the terrorist attacks that were stopped by these programs ?
I remember that some time ago I didn't care that much about being watched. It seemed to me that there were too much data generated to be able to fully examine every piece of information. However, today, there is a real danger that it could be done. We keep inventing faster and faster computers, as well as constantly improving efficiency of data processing algorithms. What is more, technology is powerful enough to convert speech to text and this quite complex transformation happens on-the-fly. We may suspect that no information is ignored.
I don't believe that such solutions has a real impact on the level of crime detection. The above youtube presentation confirms these fears. The best example is mandatory registration of pay-as-you-go cards in our country. If you really want to, you can still buy already registered card on the black market.
If our data is taken away from us and it's being done silently (hi, Facabook) for people it's perfectly okay. But try releasing an article on 'Facebook now will steal your data and even your photos' and watch the reaction. There will be so many people who are suddenly so against it.
Privacy is currently violated in any way possible, recorded calls, SMS, looged Facebook conversations, search histories. I love working with one boot desktops - you can leave everything there but after restart it is wiped back completely to the snapshot.
In the world of information technology, when everyone can find out everything about you, does it make sense to engage in paranoia?
Yes, I accept mass surveillance programs because it makes me feel more safety? It won't change in nearby future so I accept it till it' makes any global pros.
Some of you can say that "mass surveillance programs makes you feel more safety" - yes if its really used to fight terrorism, but I know few incidents when it was used against private person / businessman.
Do I approve of mass surveillance programs? Hell no.
Do I care? Hell yes i care. I don't like when my privacy is beeng violated.
Did I knew that tools made by governments, funded by MY taxes, made to spy on ME, often fall in wrong hands? i would be suprised if the didn't. It's only natural that some people would abuse that and steal some informations for their own profit.