If i do Something Like town, where i grew up. My community, people kind of know. Without anonymity, we had to behave better than we do with. Do you feel we need to preserve anonymity before we go about our liveles . In your small town, your parents, others, you, absolutely. But what didnt happen was that information wasnt tracked in perpetuity, forever. The ability to track information, your whereabouts, your mobility tracing is big. The ability of tracking this is not used the way it was intended. The reason we need privacy is its such a basic concept. Privacy is like breathing. You take it for granted until you need air and youre deprived of it. If you look at states that morphed from free and democratic societies to totalitarian states, the first thread to arrival is privacy. The academics study this, point it out again and again that without privacy, you dont have freedom. Why. The state has dont go to the extreme opposite. Why do people morph into it. The presumption there is that
Collecting that information and only permitted to use that information for a very narrow purpose. Theyre not intended to use it for secondary purposes unrelated to that primary purpose of collection. Its very narrow. So privacy is about freedom and your ability to largely go about your activities as you wish subject to limited exceptions and subject, of course, to law enforcement. I agree with you. Asking these questions. Let me ask you, the limited purposes, do you feel youre using that information for purposes for which is not intended today, right now, say in the janes department . I dont know it personally. How about security in general. Homeland security, i worked with them. Theres no issue. But i am going to point to the obvious which is to the nsa revelations that have come out. Not just nsa, my country in canada, the csc, that kind of thing. That has revealed the massive scale of information about lawabiding citizens that are being collected. Let me point you and if you want th
Yes, they are as prochoice and so on, but in terms of what the government should be doing and things they are concerned about economically, they still feel more comfortable in the Republican Party and that is what they choose to focus on. I want to ask you one very fundamental question, which is, is there a really any benefit to finding more Common Ground . We have been talking as though there is. And on some level, there seems to be an idea that needs no defense, but would it make it a difference politically to find more Common Ground . I think there are some places where it would. The one area that i think women should Work Together and cross ideological lines is in media sexism. There is no reason there needs to be a divide among women ideologically about how media, particularly Media Coverage of women running for office or in office, there is no reason there needs to be an ideological divide in terms of assessing or evaluating that. There is a group that has formed recently called
It feels a bit big brotherish that at any given moment the government knows where i am. As one of my colleagues said, the more serious problem is little sister, not big brother. It is companies knowing and tattling on you, sharing your purchasing history. Aere was a famous story about father getting very angry wondering why , his young daughter was getting pregnancy literature. Pregnancy testing literature. It turned out her browsing habits suggested she was pregnant, and she was. Before we go on. A different type of question. There is now no secretary of Homeland Security for the United States. Nobody has filled your job there is no deputy secretary of Homeland Security. Washington seems totally dysfunctional, we cannot even fill jobs in washington now. Is that a problem . It is a problem if the process is broken down. The processes have, in many ways, broken down. It is not a problem because, in the particular case of Homeland Security, because they are filling the positions on an ac
Point. It can be on youtube. Omeone has to be interested in it. Ive watched youtube. Thats not true. You dont like cats. Correct. Okay. Issue thats the going be crystallized in public pace isnt privacy in that world. Its dignity and autonomy. Regulating the way in which power is used rather than removing the power. And thats going to involve obviously. Issue s not a technology so much as a human relations and issue. Al you got to be comfortable with it. Disagree. T its both. Human relations and technology. If i can just respond i work police chief all the time in toronto, canada. E has a slide he uses with the Police Officers saying that we have to take a positive sum approach to policing and privacy do both. Of course there are cameras. There are ways to do it. Of course, theyre everywhere. By the its done you can do state, the use. What about when its not. Everybody is talking about google glass . The big issue is it can do all these things. Camera where the person being recorded has