LinkNYC has been replacing all of New York’s public payphones with advertising emblazoned wifi kiosks. Residents and visitors curious about what those kiosks will do with data their routers, cameras and Bluetooth beacons collect about them might look on its website for some kind of privacy policy. There is one there, but it’s not that one. Columbia professor Benjamin Read got a big laugh at this weekend’s HOPE XI conference in Manhattan when he pointed out that the privacy policy on LinkNYC’s website only applies to the website itself, not to the actual network of kiosks.
It’s not quite as bad as it sounds. In LinkNYC’s defense, the page in question points out the difference between the two policies up top, but given the cursory way most people read online, it wouldn’t be surprising if many users initially missed it (I did). Meanwhile, it’s encouraging that Read and his co-panelist, New York Civil Liberties Union attorney Mariko Hirose, actually did read those two privacy policies and that a room full of people showed up to hear what they found.
Great article.
The road ahead seems littered with more anti-public aspects than pro.
Regarding your argument that outrage is the option for Americans to get laws or policies to changed is a bit of wishful thinking in my opinion. The African American population has constantly shown outrage in response to the brutality that is used against them by law enforcement and absolutely nothing changed. Nothing!
Business has always been the driver of government policy and data collection is a very very big and profitable business . Not to mention that companies like Alphabet are doing all the work for security agencies, only a matter of time before they will have publicly unfettered acceas to all of that.
Being half Egyptian and having lived there for a while, I can tell you with a pretty high degree of certainty that AlL governments have had access to all your information since the beginning. In Egypt at least we know it because it's been made clear a long time ago that the gov runs the show.
I just read what I wrote and it really doesn't sound very happy but you know what....I'm excited about Steemit, at least you can get paid to post something interesting. That more than we've ever been given...definitely takes getting used to.
Steem on and prosper.
Driven by Steem!
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I think you missed my point about outrage.
I said that it was all people had. I didn't say it was powerful enough. If you go back and look you'll see that I wrote that it only works in extraordinary circumstances.
If you say that someone only has a knife on his way to a gunfight, that doesn't mean you're saying that the knife is enough. You're just pointing out that that's all he has.
The larger arc of the story was to point out that laws or rules were needed, and that they exist elsewhere.
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