The document discusses issues around surveillance, privacy, and ethics in the digital age. It notes that personal data is increasingly being collected and stored by governments and companies without proper oversight or user consent. New laws allow intelligence agencies to access people's web browsing histories and communication data. Maintaining privacy has become difficult as technology advances and more entities seek to gather and leverage people's digital information for surveillance or other purposes. Overall it raises concerns about how surveillance has become normalized and privacy eroded in today's digital world.
2. –Time Berners-Lee, 12 March 2017
Political advertising online needs transparency and
understanding
It’s too easy for misinformation to spread on the web
We’ve lost control of our personal data
10. • ISPs and mobile phone providers will keep a record of every website
visit of anyone using a British network for up to a year. This includes
sites visited through mobile browsers and phone apps (like
Facebook) - but not individual web pages.
• The data will be stored by the network that collected it, but police
and many government departments will be able to use a central
search tool to find and access those records.
• Searches of that data will be conducted at the discretion of the
police and will be overseen by a specially trained supervising officer
only. Weak judicial oversight.
31. when does intelligence turn into surveillance?
how to maintain control over privacy within ecosystem of competing owners, location sensors, proxy indicators,
sentient nodes, ambient observation, pervasive automation