{"id":816,"date":"2014-01-01T17:52:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2021-08-05T03:18:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T10:18:55","slug":"five-privacy-predictions-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/five-privacy-predictions-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Privacy Predictions For 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a new year\u2019s day, it\u2019s traditional to make some predictions that can be shown true or false in a year. With almost a decade of global-level geopolitical game in my back, let\u2019s see what we can make of the current trends. Often, it\u2019s just as interesting to see what won\u2019t<\/em> change as what probably will change.<\/p>\n

So here are my five predictions for privacy in 2014: Snowden will continue to shock those who understand what he\u2019s saying, oldmedia will continue to not care, the average person hasn\u2019t understood what\u2019s going on and will continue to not understand, politicians will continue to pretend nothing happened, and laws enabling the mass surveillance won\u2019t change or will go the wrong way, unless politicians lose their jobs over it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Snowden will continue to shock those who understand the implications of his revelations.<\/strong> When Appelbaum held a presentation<\/a> at Chaos Communications Congress just before the turn of the year and outlined a number of NSA methodologies, including their ability to hijack a Windows XP computer from several miles away, and a 100-percent infection rate of any iPhone they wanted, these are capabilities we hadn\u2019t known about and haven\u2019t protected against. With the latter observation, any Apple iDevice is out the window if you\u2019re privacy-conscious; it\u2019s not your phone, it\u2019s the NSA\u2019s.<\/em> With the former, the importance of securing home networks against remotely injected packets \u2013 not to mention detecting when it happens anyway \u2013 becomes really important. How many of us know how to do that? How many of us are security-conscious to that level? We had better start learning.<\/p>\n

2. Oldmedia will continue to not care.<\/strong> Glenn Greenwald was painfully spot on<\/a> when he accused oldmedia (TV, radio, newspapers) of being essentially in bed with today\u2019s mass surveillance machines, having absconded and gone AWOL from their role as administration watchdogs. The UK\u2019s royal baby got a ton of more coverage than the fact that the UK administration had been abolishing every shred and semblance of civil right in the United Kingdom, and likewise in the United States. Politicians and senior officials lie to protect their interests \u2013 this should not be any kind of surprise to anyone who has studied more than five minutes of political history \u2013 but oldmedia has stopped questioning their word, taking it for truth. \u201cOh, you\u2019re sure you\u2019re not violating anybody, despite these documents? Alright then, thanks for your time.\u201d<\/p>\n

3. The average person hasn\u2019t understood what\u2019s going on.<\/strong> When I was explaining the imminent FRA Law<\/a> to people in the streets of Stockholm, Sweden, they shook their head at me and accused me of lying to their faces \u2013 despite the fact that I was reading text directly from the proposed bill. They didn\u2019t want to accept that Sweden was about to introduce warrantless general wiretapping in bulk; it just couldn\u2019t happen<\/em> in their country. This was one of the more frustrating moments in my time as an activist; it wasn\u2019t that people were\u2019t aware of what was happening to their country, it was they were actively choosing to refuse to believe it.<\/em> This has pretty much continued: if you were to say to an average person in the street that the governments of the US, UK, and their national government was listening to all \u2013 all<\/em> \u2013 their phone calls, they would quite likely not believe you.<\/p>\n

4. Politicians will continue to pretend nothing happened.<\/strong> As late as today, the minister of foreign affairs in Sweden, Carl Bildt, published an op-ed exclaiming what a fine moral example<\/a> Sweden is to the rest of the world with privacy, net liberty, and civil liberties. This is despite the fact that the mentioned Swedish FRA law is one of the worst on the planet. It\u2019s blatant propaganda and outright lies, and the politicians (like Carl Bildt) are getting away with it, so far<\/em> (see prediction #2). The propaganda is so far away from reality that it qualifies for \u201cWhat\u2019s the weather like on your planet?\u201d-type comments. It\u2019s up to all of us to call out the lies, and to translate this kind of national propaganda into English so that more people can call the cards.<\/p>\n

5. Laws enabling mass surveillance won\u2019t go away unless somebody loses their office over it.<\/strong> The first problem on any politician\u2019s mind is how to get elected. The second problem on any politician\u2019s mind is how to get re-<\/em>elected. Whatever problem comes third is so far behind the first two that it\u2019s not really considered in the day-to-day routine. This means that nobody should expect career politicians to care about this in the slightest, unless<\/em> \u2013 and this is an important caveat \u2013 those politicians risk losing their jobs over the mass surveillance. Unless that happens, it will continue as if nothing had happened.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take that again, because it is important: unless somebody risks losing their office, policy will not change<\/em>. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so critical to threaten politicians\u2019 jobs over the really important questions, because this works in reverse too: the instant a politician risks losing their office over a policy, it tends to change on a dime.<\/p>\n

In conclusion,<\/strong> things are bad, and we need to stay vigilant. There is a European Parliament election coming up in a few months, and I want to encourage anybody in Europe to not only vote for good candidates on these issues in the world\u2019s largest economy<\/a>, but also to make it clear that you do so, if you choose to go that route. That remains the one road open to change.<\/p>\n

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

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