, 2005-11-01
With camera and network surveillance now commonplace, and database abuse continuing to appear, how do we balance the positive side of security along with its potential for abuse?
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Balancing surveillance
, 2005-11-01 With camera and network surveillance now commonplace, and database abuse continuing to appear, how do we balance the positive side of security along with its potential for abuse?
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It seems to have something in common with /Watching the Watchers/ by Matthew Tanase http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/318 .
Security and privacy are sometimes incompatible. While I am logging my enterprise proxy I can easily watch over all employees? internet activities. As long as my organization is paying for web traffic it is quite reasonable and understandable. Moreover, it is helps to monitor internet abuse. And yet I can collect quite a lot of personal information about my co-workers (i.e. their interests and maybe even some compromising details if someone of them likes porn for example). And for sure I could abuse this information if I wish.
What is about surveillance cameras in a shop? Do owners have right to secure themselves against possible threat?
And then, about the government: do they have right to secure themselves too?
Now, it?s almost the matter of ethics. But the problem is in lack of regulation and open documentation on:
What information is collected?
Who will have access to it, under which circumstances?
For how long will it be stored?
When I am buying something in the market they record me on a camera. I would like to know who will have access to these records, and for how long.
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