Your fridge tells you when the milk expires. Your cameras remotely tell you everything unusual is happening in your home. Your Wi-Fi-connected balance tells you your BMI and body fat down to three decimal places. With this just around the corner, it is imperative that we realize that they are also other people say the same thing
A new skill quickly emerging :. Health Information . The understanding, deep technical level, who else can see your information based on what you do with it. When you send an email, it is open for the world to see. When you store things clear "in the cloud", you might as well have put on YouTube. When you connect your camera at home "cloud", you invite a number of unknown people - the point being that you can not know how and who they are -. To look into your home
When D-Link sells their "cloud cameras," the point being that you can watch your camera at home from your mobile phone, they do not mention that a number of technical links are needed to make this work - get the video stream from inside your home, your ISP, the D-Link servers, your telco, on your mobile phone. And each of these links, there are people who have access to the same video stream, and may be forced to share.
The dystopias 1960 on governments having cameras in our homes were correct. But they were wrong on a crucial point: we installed these cameras we
In many parts of the world this is a survival skill .. Can your communication will be read by an opponent, perhaps a powerful opponent like a tyrannical government? Do they have the means to pinpoint your location? If you do not know the answers to these questions, you can not get to procreate. Ironically, it is in the worst parts of the world that the deep technical understanding literally gives you a strong evolutionary advantage.
When you put this document on Dropbox, have you considered that Dropbox employees can read it? Do you know who they are? Whether they gave a pinky finger promise not - they have technical capability to do, and under certain conditions, can and will be forced to open your documents to various third three-letter organization without tell you about it. Basically, do not put things on Dropbox - or any service cloud -. That you would not put on YouTube
"There is no such thing as the cloud. There are other people's computers."
Take Goji SmartLock, for example. An electronic unlocked doorlock from your phone. Sounds like something that could really help most people - until they mention in passing "and if you are locked out, our operators can unlock your remote gateway." This is when the gadget ceases to be a lock, and becomes something else. The point of a lock everything you - and only you - should have control over when it opens. If someone else can open to you, that means you are not in control. The distinction is subtle but crucial. A lock that is designed to be opened by someone else outside your control just is not a lock.
Understanding this is health information.
The next step is the so-called Internet of Things. Many small sensors in our daily relationships constantly send updates to servers. Our mobile phone. Our weight scale. Our refrigerator. An adversary with access to this information can quickly connect the dots and learn more about you than you can possibly know you. Do you know the last thing you not buy, for example? Probably not. But ad networks know. Do you know the last newspaper article you read, and how you got there, and how long it took you to read the article? Servers know somewhere.
Have you bought an anonymous prepaid SIM card for your mobile phone? Good. Did you pay with your credit card? Then it is not anonymous anymore.
Like all these small points of data are collected, they are also connected. Understanding how this happens will be the key of privacy in the very near future.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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