AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Internet issues today3/4/2023 This data is collected, compiled, analyzed, and used to try to sell us stuff. Everyone is under constant surveillance by many companies, ranging from social networks like Facebook to cellphone providers. SCHNEIER: Surveillance is the business model of the internet. GAZETTE: What about corporate surveillance? How pervasive is it? Snowden told his story, Congress passed a new law in response, and people moved on. It was not an issue in the 2016 election, and by and large isn’t something that legislators are willing to make a stand on. But today, what we care about is very dependent on what is in the news at the moment, and right now surveillance is not in the news. SCHNEIER: People should be alarmed, both as consumers and as citizens. GAZETTE: Should consumers be alarmed by this? The NSA’s data collection hasn’t changed the laws limiting what the NSA can do haven’t changed the technology that permits them to do it hasn’t changed. The USA Freedom Act resulted in some minor changes in one particular government data-collection program. SCHNEIER: Snowden’s revelations made people aware of what was happening, but little changed as a result. GAZETTE: After whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations concerning the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance operation in 2013, how much has the government landscape in this field changed? Schneier talked about government and corporate surveillance, and about what concerned users can do to protect their privacy. To assess the internet landscape, the Gazette interviewed cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier, a fellow with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. By contrast, the European Union hit Google this summer with a $2.7 billion antitrust fine. In April, Congress voted to allow internet service providers to collect and sell their customers’ browsing data. In fact, internet users in the United States have fewer privacy protections than those in other countries. In the internet era, consumers seem increasingly resigned to giving up fundamental aspects of their privacy for convenience in using their phones and computers, and have grudgingly accepted that being monitored by corporations and even governments is just a fact of modern life. Credit: Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer Cybersecurity expert and Berkman Klein fellow Bruce Schneier talked to the Gazette about what consumers can do to protect themselves from government and corporate surveillance.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |