Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times; It's Time to Panic About Privacy
"Here is the stark truth: We in the West are building a surveillance state no less totalitarian than the one the Chinese government is rigging up.
But while China is doing it through government...we are doing it through corporations and consumer products, in the absence of any real regulation that recognizes the stakes at hand.
It is time start caring about the mess of digital privacy. In fact it's time to panic."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Thursday, April 11, 2019
Thursday, January 31, 2019
The doorbells have eyes: The privacy battle brewing over home security cameras; The Washington Post, January 31, 2019
Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Washington Post; The doorbells have eyes: The privacy battle brewing over home security cameras
"We should recognize this pattern: Tech that seems like an obvious good can develop darker dimensions as capabilities improve and data shifts into new hands. A terms-of-service update, a face-recognition upgrade or a hack could turn your doorbell into a privacy invasion you didn’t see coming."
"We should recognize this pattern: Tech that seems like an obvious good can develop darker dimensions as capabilities improve and data shifts into new hands. A terms-of-service update, a face-recognition upgrade or a hack could turn your doorbell into a privacy invasion you didn’t see coming."
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Inspector gadget: how smart devices are outsmarting criminals; Guardian, June 23, 2017
Rory Carroll, Guardian;
Inspector gadget: how smart devices are outsmarting criminals
"Richard Dabate told police a masked intruder assaulted him and killed his wife in their Connecticut home. His wife’s Fitbit told another story and Dabate was charged with the murder.
James Bates said an acquaintance accidentally drowned in his hot tub in Arkansas. Detectives suspected foul play and obtained data from Bates’s Amazon Echo device. Bates was charged with murder.
Ross Compton told investigators he woke up to find his Ohio home on fire and climbed through a window to escape the flames. Compton’s pacemaker suggested otherwise. He was charged with arson and insurance fraud.
All three men, besides pleading innocence, have one thing in common: digital devices may help put them behind bars and etch them in criminal history as some of the first perpetrators busted by the internet of things...
[Brian Jackson, a criminal justice scholar at the Rand Corporation] warned technology was outpacing debate over privacy. “The general public isn’t aware of the full capabilities. It’s a symptom of our love of technology and lack of detailed skepticism.”
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