privacy laws today are terribly outdated. They make assumptions about the ability to observe and documentation-people who are no longer valid, and simultaneously, which was once heavily protected are no longer protected at all.
We often hear how laws and regulations applicable to the technology and IT startups seem outdated, old, against-productive, innovation, prevention and / or all of the above. The laws that may make sense at some point are now impeding progress. What many fail to consider, however, is the observation that this also applies to privacy laws. Some things have ceased to be protected completely, while others may need more or less protection -. Nobody knows, because no one has looked at the initial objectives of privacy through the lens changes radically assumptions that technology has brought to
In many legislations, newspapers and personal letters are protected in case of a search warrant - enforcement are not allowed to touch them during a search of legal residence because of privacy. But computers and phones, today's equivalent of Newspapers (and admittedly much more personal than a newspaper ever was), are considered tools - the equivalent of a wrench or screwdriver - and are legitimate targets for research. Many big brother hawks say they do not even need a search warrant to search through a phone, super-newspaper today. analog equivalent rights have been lost here: our newspapers are no longer protected because the law considers these more private than a hammer
The photography and filming, meanwhile, shows the other side of the coin of the obsolete privacy. laws. They were written at the time of chemical film rolls where one roll holds 24 photos, and you should have the roll of film developed chemically to see the photos - but only after the entire roll was used, and even then, you would have a few days delayed development if you were economical, and an hour if you were in a race. This was the environment where the laws on privacy photograph were written, and as we can see, it comes with a set of assumptions that are no longer true.
Today we take thousands of photos in the space of five minutes and released immediately. In addition, there are live camera monitoring networks covering whole cities, each camera providing the value of a chemical whole roll of pictures every second.
The laws on privacy photograph were written with the assumption that it does not hurt if everyone has the power to take a picture anywhere and anytime, storage and perhaps cross comparing some of these photographs. How these assumptions change, when reality has changed: a small number of companies, governments, and people now have the power to take pictures everywhere and all the time, storage and cons we all compare
[1945007?] in the same way, the postcards were designed with the assumption that it does not matter if some postal employees could read some cards in transit or technicians from the telephone company to hear some phone calls, when they are at work and the exercise of their functions. But we are now at the point where some players are not only able to read all cards, phonecalls and communications, all time. This changes the advantage of information and power dynamics lot . How it changes the underlying assumptions, and how it should change the laws in turn?Our privacy laws are outdated, not because they were bad or malicious, but because they were written in a set of assumptions that are not true.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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