Privacy

 Firstly, electronic tattoos is mind blowing. A fascinating message, especially the message about being threatened. First, I love the counter of; can you threaten something other than death? It has a lot to be said. Rather, getting back on topic, and how the first threat was to threaten someone with immortality is very true of todays world. People last forever. Not only do the important ones get remember but now that I think about it everyone with online access will last forever. “go down in history”, like Rudolph, for what makes them interesting to data companies. The second one is clearly direct impact to us personally. As it doesn’t matter what level of good citizen you think you are, it turns out that any time your location can be taken it will be, “just in case”. Christopher Soghoian poses the hardest question in How to Avoid Surveillance (Hyperlink). On one hand, surveillance can be useful in times of need, or for important groups such as the police. However, the addition of that back door has proven to be weak in many cases. As Soghoian reference multiple times where these services were compromised. While Soghoian would argue that it is better to live in total protection, no back doors, and no surveillance. He counters his own statement by admitting the damage that would do to groups like the police. Sadly, there are consequences on both sides. Darieth Chisolm shares a horrific and personal story of cyber harassment. The takeaway from her talk and story is that there needs to be more protection, and more directly there needs to be stricter and stronger laws that allowed for action to be taken. These issues are in our household, and in our communities, especially the online community you find yourself in.