Erosion of Online Privacy
De Hackmitin Mexico
- Modalidad: Platica
- Nombre del/a dinamizador/a, autor/a, coordinador/a: Katitza Rodriguez
- Título(s): Titulo: The Erosion of Online Privacy and Anonymity and The Need of Transparency of Government Access Requests of Citizens.
- Resumen: en pocas palabras es...
- Palabras clave: privacidad, vigilancia electrónica, legislación, transparencia
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At a time when individuals regularly turn to search engines, social networks and other Internet intermediaries to find information online, record their emotions on microblogs, share personal data with friends, store private and sensitive information such as email, use their mobile devices to connect and interact on the Internet, and save vast amounts of their information to the virtual "cloud," digital privacy is of paramount importance. Yet research by social scientists has found that few Internet users fully understand how much information they are revealing about themselves and the potential impact this disclosure can have. In addition, government agencies throughout the world are pushing for laws that force these online third party providers to collect and store more personal information that they need for the purposes of their business.
Moreover, several government initiatives are investing in security research to analyze the wealth amount of information they are collecting though the Internet. For example, the European Union has launched the advanced profiling and automated threat detection research, named INDECT (www.indect-project.eu/). In the US, the CIA's Open Source Center (https://www.opensource.gov) bills is monitoring, collecting and storing information from publicly accessible Internet sources such as blogs, chat rooms, and social networking sites. A Mexican newspaper El Milenio reported <http://blogs.milenio.com/node/3208> on a U.S. Government initiative to monitor <http://es.scribd.com/doc/60329262/Espionaje-a-carteles-de-la-droga-en-Twitter-y-Facebook> social media sites, blogs, and forums throughout the world. The document, obtained by El Milenio discloses how the U.S. gov. plans to initiate systematic monitoring of publicly available online data including "information posted by individual account users" on social media.
A growing number of businesses have been built on modern surveillance technologies, seeking to predict and prevent not only crimes but also identify alleged future security risks. These technologies raise serious privacy and freedom of association concerns because the technology may bring the unnecessary and chilling government scrutiny on citizens engaged in legitimate opposition to government polices. Across the globe there have been numerous individuals whose lives have been endangered by information that has been collected through their use of technology.
This presentation aims to surface the potential risks, trends, best and worst practices on government surveillance in Latin America, with special emphasis in Mexico, and will highlight the problems of the lack of transparency of governments' access requests.
Resumen:
At a time when individuals regularly turn to search engines, social networks and other Internet intermediaries to find information online, record their emotions on microblogs, share personal data with friends, store private and sensitive information such as email, use their mobile devices to connect and interact on the Internet, and save vast amounts of their information to the virtual "cloud," digital privacy is of paramount importance. Yet research by social scientists has found that few Internet users fully understand how much information they are revealing about themselves and the potential impact this disclosure can have. In addition, government agencies throughout the world are pushing for laws that force these online third party providers to collect and store more personal information that they need for the purposes of their business.
Moreover, several government initiatives are investing in security research to analyze the wealth amount of information they are collecting though the Internet. For example, the European Union has launched the advanced profiling and automated threat detection research, named INDECT (www.indect-project.eu/). In the US, the CIA's Open Source Center (https://www.opensource.gov) bills is monitoring, collecting and storing information from publicly accessible Internet sources such as blogs, chat rooms, and social networking sites. A Mexican newspaper El Milenio reported <http://blogs.milenio.com/node/3208> on a U.S. Government initiative to monitor <http://es.scribd.com/doc/60329262/Espionaje-a-carteles-de-la-droga-en-Twitter-y-Facebook> social media sites, blogs, and forums throughout the world. The document, obtained by El Milenio discloses how the U.S. gov. plans to initiate systematic monitoring of publicly available online data including "information posted by individual account users" on social media.
A growing number of businesses have been built on modern surveillance technologies, seeking to predict and prevent not only crimes but also identify alleged future security risks. These technologies raise serious privacy and freedom of association concerns because the technology may bring the unnecessary and chilling government scrutiny on citizens engaged in legitimate opposition to government polices. Across the globe there have been numerous individuals whose lives have been endangered by information that has been collected through their use of technology.
This presentation aims to surface the potential risks, trends, best and worst practices on government surveillance in Latin America, with special emphasis in Mexico, and will highlight the problems of the lack of transparency of governments' access requests.
