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Hasan Elahi: Giving away your privacy to escape the US terrorist watch list
Lift 11 Talk
February 4, 2011 - 11:30
Part of the Session Stories
Hasan tells us his incredible story: he was suspected of terrorism by the FBI by mistake, and ended up living totally in public to protect himself from surveillance. His talk shows how forfeiting your privacy can in fact become a new form of protection of your identity.
Read Hasan's pre-conference interview.
Comments
We could also see wikileaks as an opening of Big Brother's hidden life, with so much to sift through that most people will not. But the wikileaks camapign does take advantage of anonymity, and does not 'bite the hand that feeds', eg. leak data of server host nations.
A few questions:
How would you distinguish between your actions and those of TMI blogs?
How do these affect the net fabric and fabrications for users of the net as a useful information source?
Second:
How would you look at the September data seizures of peace activists in Minnesota (where there was a heated election between Dems and Republicans),
and the lack of seizures or arrests of the Lock and Load bloggers of the Tea Party, who threaten people on-line regularly?
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