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The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?
From the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA):
NY Times: FTC Urges Update to Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
From the article: “the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday proposed long-awaited changes to regulations covering online privacy for children … The proposed revisions expand the definition of “personal information” to include a child’s location, along with any personal data collected through the use of cookies for the purposes of targeted advertising. It also covers facial recognition technology.”
Government Hypocrisy: Protect Intellectual Property, Collect Personal Data
Mike German, ACLU policy counsel and former FBI agent, was recently on Reason.tv discussing domestic surveillance in post-9/11 America. German covers the U.S. government’s growing interest in collecting personal data, the development of data fusion centers, and the erosion of existing privacy protections.
Speaking specifically about the 4th Amendment, Brown explains:
The way the 4th Amendment protections work with your personal papers, requires probable cause and a warrant before the government can search your desk to look through your papers. Unfortunately, now most of our personal papers are kept on 3rd party servers. It’s our email that’s stored remotely. Every thought that we have we hit the search engines to find out more about the subject we’re thinking bout. All that gets recorded by 3rd parties, and that information doesn’t have the same 4th Amendment protections.
The hypocrisy is extraordinary. For decades the U.S. government has extended and enhanced intellectual property protections. The rationale has been that the laws governing property ownership in the physical environment must also apply in the digital environment. Downloading a Beatles album from Pirate Bay is treated the same as shoplifting a Beatles album from Walmart. But, when it comes to personal property in the digital environment (i.e. your data) we see an erosion of what little protections existed in the physical environment. In short: protect intellectual property, collect personal data.
We Will Remember (Your Every Move)
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN > The Apple of Its Eye: Security and Surveillance Pervades Post-9/11 NYC LA TIMES > A Key Sept. 11 Legacy: More Domestic Surveillance WIRED > How 9/11 Completely Changed Surveillance in U.S. MARKETPLACE > 9/11′s Effect on Tech AP > Documents Show NY Police Watched Devout Muslims
