PRISM-Privacy: increasingly worrying details!

Now it is Yahoo's turn that would like to reassure its users, publishing ATTEMPTS TO OPPOSE US court requests to spy on individuals and companies. These attempts naturally failed due to the fact that the order came from a higher and independent body, which is justice.

In this article by Alessandra Talarico the emphasis is on the fact that the OTTs are trying to defend themselves from the DATAGATE scandal by demonstrating that they have fought against the requests of the courts and for this reason are the champions of the user's defense….when the OTTs themselves break the basic rules of privacy and the judicial and defense and control bodies, they do nothing but turn to them “professional spies”.

The paradoxical fact is that public institutions, who have the right and mandate to protect the interest of the public, they must turn to private subjects who spy continuously and systematically everything a user makes pass through the network.

I tried to defend myself, publishing a series of letters in which they are reluctant to SHARE the collected data, it does not reassure users at all, rather….it makes them certain and aware that everything related to their public and private life is CERTAINLY SPY!!!

The proliferation of applications, games and services for mobile communication is a sign of the tendency to spy: in order to use them it is mandatory to allow these applications to have access to the address book, to all private multimedia content ( such as photos and videos ), to all the data recorded by the sites you visit, e-mails etc. etc..

Another sign is the proliferation of cloud services ( CLOUD ) which while allowing economies of scale and potential (?) greater efficiency, they hide an irrefutable reality: whoever detects the servers is able to spy on everything that is loaded on them.

Anyone , having such a large amount of data available, it is able to profile users and companies…in the best way to sell advertising.

All the other hypotheses cast really worrying doubts…data concerning the most intimate and private life such as health, personal relationships, sexual tastes, religion and many other elements that should deserve greater respect and confidentiality.

In the corporate sphere it would be about following and spying on ideas, trends, development plans, in other words : unfair competition through industrial espionage.

Technology must be able to guarantee correct competitive dynamics and respect for the rights of individuals, otherwise it becomes a simple instrument of the offense!