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LisaXiaSecondEssay 5 - 16 Jun 2016 - Main.EbenMoglen
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Privacy in the Digital Age | | | I don’t want to be influenced by the Internet and social media anymore. I don’t want to be told to want a shiny, new product that seamlessly integrates the analog life with the digital life. I don’t want my Fitbit to tell me that my steps don’t count unless it’s recorded by my fitness tracker. I don’t want a thermostat that knows my life and my schedule. I don’t want to have to verify my identity on Coursera by typing a phrase multiple times so that Coursera can learn my “unique typing patterns” so that they can “confirm my identity throughout the course” to make sure I’m not cheating. I want to be in control of my personal information – how much of it I want to give out and to whom.
Harcourt says: “The line between governance, commerce, surveillance, and private life is evaporating.” And it’s true. As governance, commerce, and surveillance merge into one, the government and various corporations are working together to watch and enforce a way of life. They monitor and punish those who step out of the norm, and reward those who conform with more objects of desire and more words of affirmation, keeping the population blinded and subdued. Digital privacy IS important and hopefully soon, more people will begin to realize it. | |
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I'm glad that Bernard's book has had such an effect. You are
precisely the reader he is trying to reach that way, and it's very
good news that his way works.
If you have decided something that is in the end about the "affects
you now" standard, anyway, then all you want is to make a series of
technology choices that will preserve your personal autonomy, the
aspect of privacy that comes from having your secrecy and anonymity
protected, instead of silently invaded and reduced to nothing. You
can use free software and the right hardware to get yourself out of
the system, and keep those you care about out too.
If, however, the standard is no longer the effect on you, but the
ecological effect on society, then you need to learn to do more than
protect yourself: this should become part of your practice. We
should work together, because this is part of what I train lawyers
to do.
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You are entitled to restrict access to your paper if you want to. But we all derive immense benefit from reading one another's work, and I hope you won't feel the need unless the subject matter is personal and its disclosure would be harmful or undesirable. |
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| Revision 5 | r5 - 16 Jun 2016 - 08:11:32 - EbenMoglen |
| Revision 4 | r4 - 09 Jun 2016 - 02:30:41 - LisaXia |
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