Can You Increase Privacy By Increasing Surveillance? by Techdirt published on 2014-11-12T23:36:36Z Michael Masnick, Hersh Reddy and Dennis Yang discuss the paradox of privacy in the digital age. Genre podcast Comment by David Brin Very good discussion! Smart guys with open minds! And many specific questions for us to deal with in the future. Still, across the interview, time and again it was proposed that citizen acess to information be limited... and it then comes out that elites WILL find a way around those protections. In the long run, transparency cannot be limited by wither technology or law, without those limitations ONLY affecting average folks, not elites. The solution is for transparency to be limited SOCIALLY... that you can know who is snooping and shout at them "MYOB!" Mind your own business. IF you can tattle on the busybody gossips and voyeurs and tell their Moms(!) then there might be deterrence that protects some core privacy out of mutual self-interest. But ONLY if society has MYOB privacy as a core value, including tolerance of harmless diversity and eccentricity. IF we become tolerance fetishists who believe in MYOB, then transparency-empowered citizens will have a chance. Anyway, for more, see: http://www.scoop.it/t/the-transparent-society Oh, the pricce -for -info thing has potential, but only if we develop genuine micro-and nano-payments systems. Continue onward smart guys! -- oh, re supervising the nSA etc, this can be done through numerous trusted third parties. Set up several, who are security cleared yet adversarial see an example here: http://www.davidbrin.com/inspectorgeneral.html 2014-12-28T23:37:14Z Comment by user7181955 Watching the taxpayer paid employee yes, watching the everyday movements of American citizens no. 2014-11-18T13:50:49Z Comment by Benny Bones less reverb 2014-11-15T00:21:32Z Comment by user7181955 Not what we gain, It's about what we'll lose. 2014-11-13T22:50:21Z Comment by user7181955 Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both 2014-11-13T22:43:07Z
