Lect 8 - Privacy and Regulation Flashcards
What are some concerns about Google Glass?
People can use it as a violation of privacy for example, record videos or take pictures in public without people knowing.
What is the main definition of privacy?
The right to be alone, to be free from intrusions and disturbance, and the right to withhold personal information
What are some issues that anti-surveillance and pro privacy activism have run to?
1) inability to demonstrate that a problem exists and that action is necessary
2) problems about how the issue is framed (people have trouble understanding what privacy means and are willing to give up their security for crime prevention and terrorist protection)
3) problems making the scope of the problem clear and manageable (they sound too pessimistic to others
What are some things anti- surveillance groups have to do in order to create more awareness?
- need to create a unified and collective anti surveillance movement
- show the scope of the problem without seeming pessimistic
What are the harms of surveillance?
- undermining our ability to maintain private information
- facilitate censorship and control
- enable abuses of power (surveillance creep)
What is the concern of being ‘private’ in ‘public’?
People often think that being private means at home, however actions like going to the church, going to the doctor and same sex couple holding hands and things that are private but are done in a public setting and therefore excessive monitoring in those types of situations is a violation of privacy
What is “The Right To Be Forgotten”?
The right to tell google to remove links that have to do with you or something that you have done in the past or anytime from coming when people google your name
What are some pros and cons of the right to be forgotten?
Pros: people can clear their names and avoid being constantly judged by something that occurred in the past
cons: politicians and famous people use this to clear their names so people don’t have access to the dirty stuff about them which makes it harder for us to know who we’re really electing or voting for
