{"id":1345,"date":"2014-12-20T15:06:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T23:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2021-07-15T07:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:44:55","slug":"predictions-on-privacy-for-2014-how-did-they-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/predictions-on-privacy-for-2014-how-did-they-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictions On Privacy For 2014: How Did They Score?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One year ago, we posted predictions for 2014 developments in the privacy field. As the year draws to a close, it\u2019s time to review them before trying to gaze into the crystal ball for 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In January, I posted<\/a> these five predictions. Let\u2019s review them.<\/p>\n

1. Snowden will continue to shock those who understand the implications of his revelations.<\/strong> Hasn\u2019t entirely come true, to be honest. While Greenwald really has spun up The Intercept<\/i>, and Mike Masnick is doing an incredible job as always over at Techdirt<\/i>, an increasing amount of material comes not from Snowden anymore. The real shockers in 2014 was non-Snowden material \u2013 but then again, those of us who do understand privacy kept being shocked.<\/p>\n

2. Oldmedia will continue to not care.<\/strong> Yes, this \u2013 the very fundamentals of democracy \u2013 remain a strictly underground topic. The irony of it is overwhelming. There were leaks of millions of credit card numbers, and nobody said a thing. There was a leak of some hundred nude photos, and all of a sudden there was an outcry in old media. That\u2019s utterly depressing. Does a privacy leak really have to be something people masturbate<\/i> to in order to call oldmedia\u2019s attention to what a serious issue this is?<\/p>\n

3. The average person hasn\u2019t understood what\u2019s going on.<\/strong> Come true. If you ask a person in the street at the end of 2014 whether it\u2019s reasonable that a random person is basically able to watch their screens on all their devices in real-time, they would dismiss it as unrealistic, or worse, think that they have \u201cnothing to hide\u201d. There is some scepticism against big corporations, but they\u2019re not the ones breaking down your door at dawn if they don\u2019t like what they see.<\/p>\n

4. Politicians will continue to pretend nothing happened.<\/strong> Actually, this came out worse than predicted. Some politicians have started fessing up to the wiretapping and gone all chest-thumping about it, posturing as though it\u2019s the moral high ground to wiretap everybody all the time. If you want an example, look at how Cheney defended Gitmo\u2019s torture and human experimentation on innocent people: \u201cI\u2019d do it again in a heartbeat\u201d. Very worrying.<\/p>\n

5. Laws enabling mass surveillance won\u2019t go away unless somebody loses their office over it.<\/strong> Nobody has, and they haven\u2019t. This trend still holds true. The first problem a career politician tries to solve is how to get elected. The second problem they try to solve is how to get re-elected. Whatever\u2019s in third place is so far behind it never really matters.<\/p>\n

Next week, ending the year, we\u2019ll be looking at trends and trying to predict a little bit of where 2015 is heading.<\/p>\n

As always, privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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