CISPA is
the acronym of Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is a cyber
security Bill currently is discussing in the USA congress. "It is designed
to help prevent and defend against cyber attacks on national infrastructure and
against other internet attacks on private firms by obtaining and sharing cyber
threat information" This law will
allow private sector search personal
user data, and then share the information with the companies and with the US government,
without the need for a warrant. If this law was passed by Congress, the private
companies would can share their data: emails, text messages... without judicial
oversight. This bill continue with the trend of the USA government to control
internet because is in the same line that SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act).
The main
problem of this law is where is the limit between the national security and the
personal privacy? and, who do puts this limit?
Our day to day lives is archived and saved in the cloud and this
information should be private. This information could be used to prevent
terrorist threats or dismantle criminal organizations, but also know the likes
and the activities of the normal people. This information is so valuable for
the companies and for the government, because they can exercise more control
over consumers and voters."This won't simply be a world of a single,
governmental Big Brother watching over your shoulder, nor will it be a world of
a handful of corporate siblings training their ever-vigilant security cameras
and tags on you." (1) Because we are partly to the blame too and we help
to this situation.
But for
Jamais Cascio we are in a Participatory Panopticon world, where this constant
surveillance is done by the citizens themselves, and is done by choice. We
upload the pictures in the social network, we write private information in our
emails... The camera phones pose a big
help to this Panopticon world and we have the possibility of save all of our
memories and past actions. But we don´t forget that all of this information is
a part of our privacy and we must decide with who share this information.
SOURCES:
(1) Jamais Cascio, 'The Rise of the Participatory Panopticon', in: Worldchanging: Change Your Thinking, May 4, 2005.
Helen Nissenbaum "A Contextual Approach to Privacy Online" in: Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Page 1-12
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ResponderEliminarIt´s a good article about the privacy topic. Currently this fact is so important because is so difficult to know where is the limit between the privacy and the security. I like your focus, and I think that he can relate this post with the Megaupload article and form the essay. Maybe he had to have used more the topic of the Participatory Panopticon world, because Jamais Cascio explain a lot of things about it in his book. But he have choosen the part of the article that fits better for his work.
Thank you Alex. It´s a good idea use this topic for my final essay. It´s true that I have to speak more about the Panopticom World but is a big topic. I preferred relate the post with the CIPSA law because i think that this law is so important for our future.
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