many personal information collection procedures go to great length to explain why data is collected and how it will be used. Unfortunately, it is all for nothing. All these guarantees are null and void, and the only thing that matters is that the data is collected.
We've all seen the privacy policies. We have seen the government fine print on how data will be used. It is just enough impression. There is absolutely nothing. All that matters is that the data is collected.
A privacy policy may bind the company collects data on you, if you ask a lawyer. Maybe even if you ask a politician. What happens next is that the company goes bankrupt, all deals are off, and looks a liquidator all the assets that can be monetized to pay off debt from bankruptcy as required by law. These assets include the data collected about you.
A government may be equally honest when he collects data on you for more benign reasons. But come election day, the government voted out of power, and the next administration discovered this cache of useful information on citizens that re-purposes in ways that you would have never approved when the data collected.
In other words, it does not matter if you trust the good faith of the data collection entity for you. It does not even matter if they have the purest of good faith from a purely objective point of view. Sooner or later, by legal, illegal or violent means, those who trusted and who promised you how the data will be used will no longer exercise the power required on the data collected - and at that moment, someone the other calls the shots and rewriting the rules entirely suited to their interests.
The only concern when data is collected about you must be how this data can be abused in the worst case, for this exact scenario is more likely than not materialize.
There are many warnings history here. One of the most horrifying, at the risk of earning Godwin, arrived early last century, the Netherlands has been collecting data of religion in the dossiers of the population. The reason was the mildest imaginable :. To ensure that there were sufficient places of worship for everyone in the city, and at suitable distances from people's homes
Certainly no one would oppose these collected data to provide citizens the best civic service?
Then World War II came around. The new administration ... ... found it very convenient to have the religion listed under the public records of the population, including where people lived. As a result, there was almost no Jews all in Amsterdam in 1945. Quoting Wikipedia:
In 1939, there were about 140,000 Dutch Jews living in the Netherlands -Low. […] In 1945, about 35 000 of them were still alive. […] Approximately 75% of the Dutch-Jewish population perished, an unusually high percentage compared to other occupied countries of Western Europe. […] The Civil Administration was advanced and offered Nazi Germany A complete overview not only in the number of Jews, but also exactly where they lived.
As horrible as it is, it is far too easy to dismiss because World War 2 was such an exceptional event that could never possibly happen again. It is a mistake. Most genocides are based off of public records, to the extent that some of my fellow activists are researching in the field of identity cards resistant genocide.
But even short of genocide, far short of genocide, examples abound of how the data collected were horrifically redirected. Let's take a modern example of Sweden, which has one of the most important medical databases for research on hereditary factors of PKU phenylketonuria , inability to metabolize phenylalanine and therefore more artificial sweeteners . To help the search, a small sample of blood was taken from each child born after 1975. For strictly medical research in hereditary defects.
In other words, the database of the blood sample was strictly for medical research, until the prosecutor's office realized that they could legally assign this database for DNA samples.
suddenly, without any public debate whatsoever, and only at the initiative of the prosecutor's office, Sweden created a DNA registry for purposes of the law of its entire population under 40 years. This register is today, and is the largest DNA population registry available to law enforcement around the world.
Then, of course, you have the everyday database leaks, but catastrophic ordinary, those that occur for the reasons of incompetence malice. The recent leak of Ashley Madison dating service comes to mind.
The only thing that is important to know whether the data is collected at all. There will always be used against the person concerned, with mathematical certainty.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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