Do we really need a scorched earth policy for data protection...as Peter Watts suggested in a recent speech to the IAPP: Don’t just offer data protection, especially since you can’t guarantee it...Offer data destruction instead...a scorched earth society. Most of us in the west were raised with legends, myths and movies that taught Suspicion of Authority (SoA). Thanks to the great science fiction author, George Orwell, we share a compelling metaphor -- Big Brother -- propelling our fears about a future that may be dominated by tyrants. Whether they emerge from Big Government or a corporate oligarchy or the traditional feudalism of inherited wealth, it is the end result most of us dread… a return to the brutal, pyramid-shaped social order that dominated 99% of human societies -- only now empowered by fantastic powers of technological surveillance and enforcement. Finding ways to escape that fate - and instead preserve this narrow, fragile renaissance of freedom - is the common goal of activists across the spectrum. Though we are hobbled in this effort by the spectrum itself, whose artificial divides make us deride potential allies, proclaiming simplistic, spasmodic prescriptions. Nowhere is this sad reflex more prevalent than in the lobotomized modern debate over how to handle information....
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 16:17:41 +0000
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