Security

Danger, Privacy Conference!

On Tuesday, Fordham University is holding a day-long conference on Privacy Rights and Wrongs: Balancing Moral Priorities for the 21st Century. Leading academics in ethics, public policy, philosophy, and the law will be speaking. So will a relatively-unknown blogger and WIRED magazine contributing editor. Here’s a brief round-up of my talk, "No Place to Hide: […]

On Tuesday, Fordham University is holding a day-long conference on Privacy Rights and Wrongs: Balancing Moral Priorities for the 21st Century. Leading academics in ethics, public policy, philosophy, and the law will be speaking. So will a relatively-unknown blogger and WIRED magazine contributing editor.

Here's a brief round-up of my talk, "No Place to Hide: How 9/11 (and Google) Wrecked Privacy."

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The government and businesses used to have to work hard, to find out your secrets. Not any more. The growth in digital networks made it elementary to track every e-mail, phone call, Web search, and purchase you make. The post-9/11 security scare gave the government the license to do so. A new generation of Internet youth have embraced this death of privacy, and are now living radically open lives, online.

The conference is open to the public. So if you're in New York, and are interested in this kind of stuff, come on down.