The network, known as the Federal Intrusion Detection Network, or Fidnet, alarmed civil libertarians who said it could be used to curtail privacy in the Internet age.
Now the coalition, which promised a lighter touch on civil liberties, is in similar straits, especially over plans to curtail privacy on the internet.The government insists it will not seek access to the content of communications, but says it can gain valuable intelligence by simply monitoring who is talking to whom, and where and when.
Therefore, the question before us today is not whether we wish to extend additional privacy protections to the Appellant but whether we wish to follow the United States Supreme Court and sharply curtail a privacy interest long recognized by this Court". Commonwealth v. White, ___ Pa., at ___, 669 A. 2d, at 905.
That said, even in Switzerland, the political security screw is being tightened on individual privacy: ProtonMail has had to mobilize against a domestic surveillance law, passed last fall, that's seeking to curtail Swiss privacy rights.
But while she comes down hard on federal efforts to curtail digital privacy, calling them a violation of civil liberties and due process, she is equally tough on those technolibertarians who extrapolate their anger at the feds' stand on cryptography (encoding used for security purposes) to the government at large.
Encryption will do little to curtail the privacy risk inherent in AI, facial recognition software and other kinds of algorithms that can predict user identity and behavior.
Gavin Lewis Manchester Your editorial (The world at their fingertips, 22 June) concludes: "We are creating a system of total surveillance … which, in the wrong hands, could severely curtail protest, reporting, privacy and hard-won freedoms of association and speech".
This monitoring, according to Orwell, is the application of "science and technology to curtail human freedom and privacy, and to control human behaviour".
Civil rights advocates said they were alarmed by the administration's demand that Congress move so quickly to approve measures that, they warned, could severely curtail the right to privacy.
The House financial overhaul bill would make it easier for the FTC to issue rules on privacy that would curtail an advertiser's ability to collect personal data on consumers' Web habits.
6- The "Inhuman" Cybercrime Bill: Sharif's government is introducing a controversial cyber security bill called the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015 that will drastically intrude people's privacy and also curtail dissent.
