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at the ragged edge
by noteworthy at 12:24 pm EDT, Mar 21, 2015 |
Astro Teller, on Google Glass: I'm amazed by how sensitively people responded to some of the privacy issues. When someone walks into a bar wearing Glass ... there are video cameras all over that bar recording everything.
Robert Graham: While CISA won't prevent attacks, it will cause mass surveillance. CISA isn't about prevention, it's about gathering information after the fact while prosecuting a crime.
WBUR: Every time you slip that phone into your pocket, you're making a deal with the carrier: you get to use it, but the company gets your data. All of your data: where you are, where you travel, where you shop, who you're with, where you sleep -- even who you sleep with.
James Robertson: In a sense, we are all under surveillance, all the time -- our whereabouts, activities, and transactions reduced to metadata and available to anyone who can break the code -- and we have brought it upon ourselves.
Jane Harman: Cyber competence isn't just a set of technical skills; it's a state of mind. Be wary of writing code you wouldn't want thrown back against your own networks.
Bob Work: Our technological dominance is no longer assured. Quite frankly, we're at the ragged edge of what is manageable.
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RE: at the ragged edge
by Decius at 12:03 pm EDT, Mar 26, 2015 |
noteworthy wrote:
Astro Teller, on Google Glass: I'm amazed by how sensitively people responded to some of the privacy issues. When someone walks into a bar wearing Glass ... there are video cameras all over that bar recording everything.
They STILL don't understand what went wrong with Google Glass!? I'll try to write more about this later, but this has the appearances of a serious cultural/institutional blindspot within Google. They really believe that privacy is irrelevant and they just can't wrap their heads around evidence to the contrary. It reminds me of that Upton Sinclair quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" The problem is that given the amount of information Google has been entrusted with, their failure to understand this failure means that it may be repeated in other contexts where the stakes are higher. |
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RE: at the ragged edge
by noteworthy at 4:51 pm EDT, Mar 26, 2015 |
Decius wrote: They STILL don't understand what went wrong with Google Glass!?
Thad Starner was recently on NPR's Invisibilia, which was later boiled down to a Morning Edition story. Perhaps he might respond to your Sinclair quote with the William Gibson quote, "The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet." |
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