The plan for unmanned police drones to patrol traffic and other city conditions in Seattle has sparked a new set of legal concerns about privacy. Law traditionally lags technology, but we can expect now to see a new round of activity in the courts as legal definitions begin to emerge on what "next-gen privacy" will look like.
I agree. The millenials and pluracrists coming up now don't understand the systems/technology they use -from the backend out. They WYSIWYG their hearts out, but have no idea how and why their info is being captured, used, and in many instances, flat out hi-jacked.
I blame the American education system for this lack of understanding, for the most part. If schools are going to jump on the cloud, download FREE content and lessons, and then tell students to research on the Web, then they have an incumbant responsibility to teach students some cyber/IT basics. Privacy and security should be on that list.
Yes, nasimson, I think that as some of these tech privacy threats begin to emerge, that all persons (including the younger generation) will begin to ask some hard questions about privacy.
Mary I think the generation next is a little confused here, they want to collaborate ,crowdsource and share, yet they also want their privacy to remain intact. And law is no exception, because law cant be ambigious legislatures find it difficult where to draw a line. Perhaps technology can never be completely reined in by law.
I'm not sure what you're seing over there right now, Kim--but from my experience, Europe has usually been more stringent than the U.S--excepting the movie downloading (BitTorrents) dispute.
An interesting contrast to the situation in Europe where fairly stringent privacy legislation is already in place, and Facebook and Google are running afoul of it.
Thanks for the vblog, Mary. At the rate we're going, it would seem that the phrase "next-gen privacy" will turn out to be an oxymoron. But I think we're going to witness a shift when consumers start to demand their data and privacy back, particularly as they become more aware of issues such as the one you've described.
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Tongji University in China has teamed with local businesses in the development of a "real world" banking system that now enables students to master technical skills that are immediately transferrable to enterprises.
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In the final episode of this series about the death of Internet anonymity, Saunders describes how the Internet of the future will start to attain a level of intelligence that requires no human intervention. Scary.
What can users today do to protect their online privacy? The simplest and most obvious option is to not use the Internet – at all. However, once all digital information is consolidated over the Internet, trying to protect digital identity by simply unplugging from the Internet becomes impossible – a fact that has manifest implications for civil liberties, Saunders says.
By 2011 the number of Internet-connected sensors will exceed 1 trillion, making your chances of doing anything or going anywhere unnoticed pretty much zero. Saunders talks about how the 'sensortization' of the Internet is eliminating the traditional divide between online and offline populations.
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