this week, new invasive spy projects adopted in Canada and France. Two of them, as usual, to go beyond what has been seen before in their audacity. But private net is just as fundamental as the right to freedom of expression.
In Canada, the famous Bill C-51 passed. In France, a project labeled act "much more invasive than the US Patriot Act" adopted.
The concept of politicians to listen to all the phonecall, every conversation, every search, every thought was unthinkable ago only two decades. When the Soviet Union collapsed and Eastern Europe was freed from slavery, the idea was that the citizens of Eastern Europe were supposed to enjoy Western freedom from there to instead of having their every move monitored by a suspicious government. It was never meant to be the opposite, that the Western world would copy the governments of Eastern Europe.
the net is not a toy
Today, we exercise our fundamental rights. - meeting of the freedoms of expression, opinion, the press and of expression - through net. therefore, a free net has itself become as fundamental a right as all other rights we exercise through it.
Yet politicians continue to treat the Internet as a kind of toy you can take the children when they were misbehaving, even considering the collective punishment of the disconnect whole families on simple charge to undermine the monopoly of copyright of someone. This is equivalent to being exiled to modern society :. Your freedoms of expression, assembly, opinion, the press and information are summarily removed and your ability to work, study, and even pay bills
When the net is not threatened with the removal and disconnection, it is instead increasingly tapped, loose, without a warrant, for no other reason that today's politicians will get away with it.
You can not trust politicians today to defend against Big Brother, because it is they who are Big Brother.
part of the explanation lies in the fact that senior politicians today are born in a disconnected world. They (literally!) Have secretaries print their emails for them. The next generation will be slightly better -. Those in their 35-50s today and were just nerds pariah in their teens at the dawn of computerization of the whole society
The real change will come with time: today, about a third of children use a tablet before their first birthday . That's quite a change from when I started coding in seven years (which was still quite early by the standards of the 1970s)
The problem filling the years until these people come to power -. For if we continue on the vector of today, children growing up today have never known that freedom of opinion and expression means, and they will not question the life in a partnership surveillance (some who are smart enough to question will also have an innate understanding that the mere act of questioning is dangerous)
therefore, the problem lies not in securing long-term civil liberties :. is going to solve, if (and only if) we can fix them for the next 30 years. This is the mission today - the mission for all of the net production today
If we do not, we are heading into a nightmare surveillance society, one that historically can take centuries to undo to restore the most basic. of freedom.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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