Evgeny #Morozov on Why Our Privacy Problem is a #Democracy Problem in Disguise | MIT Technology Review
►http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520426/the-real-privacy-problem
Cet article est tellement juste que je ne trouve pas de paragraphe à extraire pour SeenThis.
Si tu n’as pas lu cet article mais que tu continues de parler de problèmes relatifs à la #privacy, tu perds ton temps.
Voir la chronique de X Porte qui essaie d’expliquer en français, signalée ici ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/209555
Oui, c’est sa chronique qui m’a rappelé que je voulais poster cet article. Je ne le savais pas sur SeenThis :)
Thus the balance between privacy and transparency is especially in need of adjustment in times of rapid technological change. That balance itself is a political issue par excellence, to be settled through public debate and always left open for negotiation. It can’t be settled once and for all by some combination of theories, markets, and technologies.
People who say that tracking their fitness or location is merely an affirmative choice from which they can opt out have little knowledge of how institutions think. Once there are enough early adopters who self-track—and most of them are likely to gain something from it—those who refuse will no longer be seen as just quirky individuals exercising their autonomy. No, they will be considered deviants with something to hide. Their insurance will be more expensive. If we never lose sight of this fact, our decision to self-track won’t be as easy to reduce to pure economic self-interest; at some point, moral considerations might kick in.
Et si la vie privée était moins importante que la démocratie
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Dates/Horaires de Diffusion : 20 Décembre, 2013 - 08:45 - 08:50
6 mois maintenant que dure l’affaire Snowden et toujours aussi difficile de la penser globalement, philosophiquement. Le chercheur Evgueni Morozov a proposé il y a quelques semaines, dans le magazine en ligne du MIT la TechnologyReview, une interprétation que je vous propose qu’elle me semble tout à fait intéressante. Le premier temps de sa réflexion consiste à replacer l’affaire des ...
date de remontée fiction : Vendredi 20 Décembre (...)
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Evgeny Morozov on Why Our Privacy Problem is a Democracy Problem in Disguise | MIT Technology Review
►http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520426/the-real-privacy-problem
n 1967, The Public Interest, then a leading venue for highbrow policy debate, published a provocative essay by Paul Baran, one of the fathers of the data transmission method known as packet switching. Titled “The Future Computer Utility,” the essay speculated that someday a few big, centralized computers would provide “information processing … the same way one now buys electricity.”
Our home computer console will be used to send and receive messages—like telegrams. We could check to see whether the local department store has the advertised sports shirt in stock in the desired color and size. We could ask when delivery would be guaranteed, if we ordered. The information would be up-to-the-minute and accurate. We could pay our bills and compute our taxes via the console. We would ask questions and receive answers from “information banks”—automated versions of today’s libraries. We would obtain up-to-the-minute listing of all television and radio programs … The computer could, itself, send a message to remind us of an impending anniversary and save us from the disastrous consequences of forgetfulness.
It took decades for cloud computing to fulfill Baran’s vision. But he was prescient enough to worry that utility computing would need its own regulatory model. Here was an employee of the RAND Corporation—hardly a redoubt of Marxist thought—fretting about the concentration of market power in the hands of large computer utilities and demanding state intervention. Baran also wanted policies that could “offer maximum protection to the preservation of the rights of privacy of information”:
Highly sensitive personal and important business information will be stored in many of the contemplated systems … At present, nothing more than trust—or, at best, a lack of technical sophistication—stands in the way of a would-be eavesdropper … Today we lack the mechanisms to insure adequate safeguards. Because of the difficulty in rebuilding complex systems to incorporate safeguards at a later date, it appears desirable to anticipate these problems.
Sharp, bullshit-free analysis: techno-futurism has been in decline ever since.