The rise
of Big Data has led to continuing
threats to privacy from three giant
sources:
•From business
organizations
•From governments,
local to federal
•From foreign
governments and criminal groups
Business & Cyberspying
•Almost everything we do online is
being scooped up and recorded for use by marketers, and it’s difficult to
know what parts of our own lives still belong to us.
•Whatever the impact on your
personal privacy, it seems unlikely that you can claim
ownership of a lot of data that’s being
collected about you. At work, for instance, you basically
have no rights.
Government & Cyberspying
•Governments at all levels spy on
their citizens, sometimes encouraged by the
law, sometimes in spite of the law,
often unknown to us.
•Local police, national ID cards, National
Security Agency (NSA), FBI, drones, and
so on
Spying, Hacking, & Cyberwarfare by Foreign Governments & Groups
•The world
is so interconnected that it is a constant struggle for technology managers to keep us secure against cyberinvasions of all sorts.
•Governments get involved in cyberwarfare —warfare
involving computers and the Internet in which one
nation attacks another’s information
systems.