Big Uncle: privacy and surveillance

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Big Uncle is a name for the concept of “benevolent security”. Privacy is a dated concept, disappearing fast. People get all tied in a knot over this, but the consequences are only as bad as we let them be. Like any technology, there will be evil applications and there will be good ones. There are upsides: Big Uncle not Big Brother. Who controls which one we get? The people who work in IT: we make either one happen, we are the troops.

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Rob England

The IT Skeptic

Big Uncle

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You are

being

watched

Snowden

is a hero

Power in

the hands

of a few

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The

needle

in a

haystack

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“You have zero privacy

anyway… Get over it.”- Scott McNealy

Privacy

was a

passing

phase

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“a surprising number of

people use webcam

conversations to show

intimate parts of their body

to the other person.”-UK GCHQ report

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Personal

vs social

privacy

True

democracy

has no

place for

anonymity

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“What you can show

throughout history is

that openness and light

has increased the

freedom of people.”- David Brin

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Welcome

to the

global

village

We cede

privacy

for

benefits

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“35 years to

earn the points

to fly from

Sydney to

London.”- Sydney Morning Herald

“…the relentless

destruction of

privacy.”- The Economist

We will

cede

more

not

less

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"Secrets are lies,

sharing is caring, and

privacy is theft.”- The Circle, Dave Eggers

"The most private self is

like the photographic

negative that's erased

when exposed to the

light.”- Josh Cohen

• Target pregnant teen

• Facebook experiment

• Google Glass

• Back doors in Cisco

and Huawei

• UK DRIP bill

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• Snowden

• The Intercept

• Right to be forgotten

It is

up to

us

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Big

Uncle?

Rob England

www.twohills.co.nz

Big Uncle