“A majority of Americans say they support warrantless government surveillance of the Internet communications of U.S. citizens, according to a new poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.”
I'm curious about the influence on this opinion after that dating portal hack. Do those events even have any influence? Because I don't know what else could cause a move towards more privacy awareness. Education has been tried. Most of them don't care (tl;nr).
I think many in the older generation simply don't understand or are willfully ignoring the impacts of this.
My own parents are educated, informed and relatively tech-able. When we talk about this topic they pull out the "nothing to hide" defense. Eventually I'm able to prove that is not a valid defense. Then they pull the "doesn't matter, I'll be dead soon" card. Choosing to ignore a mammoth problem.
There are so many complex issues swirling around this subject that I fear 140 Character Consciousness will simply tune out the noise. In this light, I would think that current / contemporary culture is more at risk of quietly letting things happen.
One of the most worrying concepts personally is the idea of an acceptance of “law” as being beyond culture; outside of politics, the social, the human, and moored in some late Rationalist “hard science.”
At risk of being trite, one might wonder, would Rosa Parks be permitted on that bus in an age where she was surveilled and profiled? What role would her peers and associates have played in that surveilling, perhaps unbeknownst to them? What downward pressures can't we see?
> (...) the "doesn't matter, I'll be dead soon" card.
This mindset is what creates a _lot_ of problems; while some decisions do not matter greatly for oneself, they do for others and/or even more so for future generations.
I think many people grasp this concept in the context of polluted oceans et al., but fail to do so when it comes to the real-world manifestations of 1984 and the like.
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I'm curious about the influence on this opinion after that dating portal hack. Do those events even have any influence? Because I don't know what else could cause a move towards more privacy awareness. Education has been tried. Most of them don't care (tl;nr).
My own parents are educated, informed and relatively tech-able. When we talk about this topic they pull out the "nothing to hide" defense. Eventually I'm able to prove that is not a valid defense. Then they pull the "doesn't matter, I'll be dead soon" card. Choosing to ignore a mammoth problem.
One of the most worrying concepts personally is the idea of an acceptance of “law” as being beyond culture; outside of politics, the social, the human, and moored in some late Rationalist “hard science.”
At risk of being trite, one might wonder, would Rosa Parks be permitted on that bus in an age where she was surveilled and profiled? What role would her peers and associates have played in that surveilling, perhaps unbeknownst to them? What downward pressures can't we see?
Scares the life out of me.
This mindset is what creates a _lot_ of problems; while some decisions do not matter greatly for oneself, they do for others and/or even more so for future generations.
I think many people grasp this concept in the context of polluted oceans et al., but fail to do so when it comes to the real-world manifestations of 1984 and the like.