www/philosophy surveillance-vs-democracy.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 19/06/26 08:19:40

Modified files:
        philosophy     : surveillance-vs-democracy.html 

Log message:
        Add an end note about ambient privacy (RT #1394884); minor style tweak.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.68&r2=1.69

Patches:
Index: surveillance-vs-democracy.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html,v
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--- surveillance-vs-democracy.html      13 Apr 2019 12:31:18 -0000      1.68
+++ surveillance-vs-democracy.html      26 Jun 2019 12:19:35 -0000      1.69
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@
 
 <!-- rms: I deleted the link because of Wired's announced
      anti-ad-block system -->
-<blockquote class="center"><p>A version of this article was first published in
+<blockquote class="center"><p><em>A version of this article was first 
published in
 <cite>Wired</cite> in October&nbsp;2013.<br />
 Also consider reading &ldquo;<a
 
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance";>A
 radical proposal to keep your personal data safe</a>,&rdquo; published in
-<cite>The Guardian</cite> in April&nbsp;2018.</p></blockquote>
+<cite>The Guardian</cite> in April&nbsp;2018.</em></p></blockquote>
 
 <div class="article">
 
@@ -281,7 +281,8 @@
 any desired period of time, with the average usage pattern for that
 period.  The same benefit, with no surveillance!</p>
 
-<p>We need to design such privacy into all our digital systems.</p>
+<p>We need to design such privacy into all our digital
+systems&nbsp;[<a href="#ambientprivacy">1</a>].</p>
 </div>
 
 <h3 class="subheader">Remedy for Collecting Data: Leaving It Dispersed</h3>
@@ -318,7 +319,7 @@
 occasionally, but the systematic accumulation of such data on the
 Internet must be limited.</p>
 
-<p><a name="privatespace"><b>*</b></a>I assume here that the security
+<p><a name="privatespace"><b>*</b></a> I assume here that the security
 camera points at the inside of a store, or at the street.  Any camera
 pointed at someone's private space by someone else violates privacy,
 but that is another issue.</p>
@@ -551,6 +552,15 @@
 Soviet Union and East Germany were, we must reverse this increase.
 That requires stopping the accumulation of big data about people.</p>
 </div>
+<div class="column-limit"></div>
+
+<h3 style="font-size: 1.2em">End Note</h3>
+<ol>
+<li id="ambientprivacy">The condition of <em>not being monitored</em>
+has been referred to as <a
+href="https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm";>ambient
+privacy</a>.</li>
+</ol>
 </div>
 
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
@@ -610,7 +620,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/04/13 12:31:18 $
+$Date: 2019/06/26 12:19:35 $
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 </p>
 </div>