Big Brother is not looking at you
Big Brother is not looking at you
Hardly a week passes without me meeting people who, when I ask how they are, tell me they are worried about authoritarianism. When living in California, my impulse is to ask if they are concerned about the state's single-party rule. But before I can get that out, the complaints start: Trump,
Google, police state. Uh kid Paranoia pot-dispensary?
This fascist thought behind every tree is not helped by the technological industry.
CEO Tim Cook told the privacy commissioners in Brussels last month that personal information "is being armed against us with military efficiency, today that trade has exploded in an industrial data complex." Mr. Cook was rummaging through Facebook and Google and requesting more regulations.
In the high style of Silicon Valley, former Facebook security executive Alex Stamos took to
to criticize Cook's hypocrisy: "Apple uses ingrained hardware [digital rights management] to deny Chinese users the ability to install "virtual private networks." That means that iPhone users in China can not avoid censorship and surveillance of their government.Frill traffickers in the United States worry about authoritarianism, but in China it is real, any trapped person who resists there gets a mark in his permanent record that is not so proverbial.
In 2014, China began to implement a social credit system, with the goal of implementing it nationally by 2020. Like the FICO financial credit system in the US. UU., Scores come from hundreds of data sources, but in this case those sources include more than 200 million cameras that monitor the behavior of citizens. Debtors end up in blacklists, can not take trains or stay in luxury hotels. Some of those who have refused to join the army have been excluded from the universities.
There are also "red lists" of good citizens, who are entitled to benefits such as skipping lines on ferries and not paying a deposit to rent bicycles. Every man, woman and child must adapt to the social pressure of the government, or otherwise. As The Kennedy Kennedys sang in 1979: "It's the secret police of Suede-Denim / They've come for your niece."
Is authoritarianism a rational fear in the United States? We have all the pieces. FICO tracks financial credit, although not very well. The loyalty systems of airlines to supermarkets track purchases. Environmentalists often deploy social persuasion, from LEED energy efficiency standards to signaling the virtue surrounding hybrid cars and expensive organic foods.
But these are all private actors. The government has non-flight blacklists and TSA PreCheck as a red list of trips. But to the extent that anyone can prove, that information is in silos. The Internal Revenue Service must not share data with Immigration and Customs Control. And your phone records? To catch the recent bomber, the FBI identified his fingerprints but had to get a subpoena before he could triangulate his location from telephone records.
Our checks have balances. Facebook, Google and Apple have fixed procedures to handle requests for government data. According to the Stored Communications Act of 1986, obtaining access to the data generally requires a subpoena, a court order or a search warrant; Less than 10% of applications qualify as emergencies according to company criteria. Researchers also need citations to access the images of the city's traffic cameras.
California passed a privacy law in June according to the European General Data Protection Regulation. The cost of compliance will benefit the larger technology companies by squeezing competitors, while the new privacy rules will do little to prevent data breach. Instead, the law will bring government and technology platforms even closer together.
How to prevent a social credit system from reaching the United States? First, keep regulators out of the business of setting privacy rules, as they will be tempted to offer rewards to holders in exchange for backdoors to user information. Second, avoid mixing data between different government agencies.
Finally, in the digital age, the privacy of data should be understood as a property right. The concept of property rights formed the basis for the uncontrolled success of US capitalism. You, not the state, you own your land and your ideas. Congress must pass a law that considers that individuals are full owners of their digital information, although they would still be free to sell it in segments to Facebook or United Airlines or Safeway.
In contrast, China's political system, a mestizo of autocratic capitalism and democratic socialism, is not compatible with long-term progress and growth. Given the option, fewer and fewer Chinese entrepreneurs will choose to realize their dreams at home. China's authoritarian oversight over property rights and privacy is a fuse already lit. Ideas, like capital, flow to where they are treated well.
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