Re: [ontolog-forum] Ontological issues relative to privacy.

[John Bottoms <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

The UN has released a draft resolution on November 20, 2013, "The right to privacy in the digital age.
The UN voted today to approve the resolution according to The Register. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/19/united_nations_signs_off_on_right_to_privacy_in_the_digital_age/)

The resolution claims as the basis for the right to privacy:
 o the Charter of the United Nations
 o the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

It states that, "...no one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence, and the right to the protection of the law against such interference..."

A 3 page .pdf of the draft resolution is at the URL:

http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/C.3/68/L.45/Rev.1

http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/C.3/68/L.45/Rev.1

-John Bottoms
 FirstStar Systems
 Concord, MA USA

On 1/17/2014 8:55 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

On 1/16/14 9:09 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote:

On 01/16/2014 03:59 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

Data is a perishable good, its utterly dependent on context for real
utility. Thus, once are (back) in control of the time varying nature of
our data we basically recalibrate this nasty situation.

Alas, Kingsley, that's what I thought, too, until December 31, when I
saw Jacob Appelbaum's 1-hour presentation of the recent Der Spiegel
revelations -- revelations that at last were worriedly referenced by
NYT's David Sanger and PBS's Gwen Ifill on the PBS Newshour only last
night.

Forget the internet; forget malware; the *hardware* has back doors, and
you can't detect them.  There is RFID-like technology, which, when
suffused with sufficient microwave energy, allegedly can broadcast data
from, and inject malware into, even offline digital devices.
Appelbaum's entire disillusioning presentation is well worth the hour
required to view it, but if you're pressed for time, the most
mindblowing stuff starts at minute 57.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0w36GAyZIA

So, I do not think I exaggerate when I say privacy is dead.

It could die if we give up the fight, but I don't think we've lost the fight just yet. Our biggest challenge is getting to a point where users of networked technologies invest some interest in understanding the digital super-information-highway code. Should we get to the aforementioned point, it becomes a lot easier to educate legislators about how existing laws need to evolve in alignment with technology advances etc..

  We all have
many illusions to abandon, and, I fear, not a whole lot of time to adapt
our cultures to the new modalities of power before the inevitable
corruption makes orderly adaptation even harder.

Yep!!

Kingsley

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