Quite a few people have approached me and asked my opinion on government-implemented backdoors in open-sauce software. Well, I usually refer to this youtube-clip:
23 January, 2015
Government backdoors?
28 January, 2013
Data Privacy Day
Yeah, so it's DPD again. And today it's more important than ever to be aware of data privacy issues. In our society, as it is today, we're rapidly approaching total populace monitoring. We're not quite there yet, but it's just a matter of time.
Of course, it can be argued that not everyone will have to worry too much about being "monitored". Authorities, the government and cynics tend to say: "If you don't have anything to hide, you don't need to worry". Well, is this completely true? I would disagree.
A lot of the sensitive (and often, very personal) data stored about individuals online can be used against private citizens without the intent of criminal persecution what-so-ever. An individual does not strictly have to be a criminal to be monitored. It can be any one of us. And who's to say that law-abiding citizens won't be persecuted for reasons other than direct judicial causes?
The major problem(s) with national surveillance is often: "who has the right to disclose this information?" and "who determines what parts of this information can be utilized as judicial evidence?" and last but not least "to whom can this information be disclosed?". These questions worry me.
Of course, it would be argued that ALL crime should be fought with the tools we have readily available. Fair enough. But WHO has the right to pry into such sensitive information? What do they have as a legal-inscentive to use this information for? And for whom can the person(s) responsible for gathering specified informatiom disclose this information to?
Time will show...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Privacy_Day
13 July, 2010
DT: overvåking på norske veier
Datatilsynet advarer mot kontrollsamfunn på norske veier, de motsetter seg idéen om å bruke kontinuerlig video-overvåking i trafikken, men godkjenner bruk av teknologi i kontroll-sammenheng, under strenge rammebetingelser.
"I slike tilfeller vurderer vi det slik at samfunnsnytten av tiltaket overstiger personvernulempene". Dette da bare dersom etatene kjører målrettede kontroller, og ikke overskrider disse rammebetingelsene.
"Forutsetningen er at mannskap fra etatene er på plass og kan stanse kjøretøyet umiddelbart i sammenheng med den aktuelle kontrollen. Videre forutsetter vi at opplysningene ikke blir lagret for senere bruk" uttaler konstituert direktør Ove Skåra.
Datatilsynet avviser automatisk og kontinuerlig registrering av biler som passerer et overvåkingskamera, men advarer samtidig mot såkalt formålsutglidning - det vil si at overvåkningen blir utvidet til å gjelde mer enn opprinnelig planlagt.
Link:
http://www.digi.no/846921/sier-nei-til-automatisk-bilovervaakning