In the days of candles, privacy was ensured by dim interior light.
Or maybe people already assume the days of personal privacy online are long dead, and just shrug their shoulders at new reports of yet another breach of trust with a fatalistic, "oh, who was it this time?" In any event, it's already been observed that the fallout from the Facebook scandal has been minimal, in terms of user behavior.
While this is necessary for the technology to learn, Mozilla acknowledges that fears of misused and manipulated personal data are at a high these days following breaches of privacy and trust by companies like Facebook and Equifax among others in recent months.
The CEO has learned a lot about listening to the public since the early days of Facebook's privacy missteps.
So we're the company that did Citizenfour and here at Berlinale we also have Alex Gibney's film Zero Days so these issues of privacy and security in the modern digital age are very important.
His bankruptcy filing in July 2015 came days after losing an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit filed by a woman who said he acquired a video she made with her boyfriend, added himself as a crude commentator and posted it online without her permission.
The lack of privacy, these days especially, can be hard work.
In his concurring opinion Alito outlined that long-term surveillance can reveal everything about a person: Following the privacy-based approach most commonly used post-Katz, the four-justice minority are instead of the opinion that the continuous monitoring of every single movement of an individual's car for 28 days violated a "reasonable expectation of privacy", and thus constituted a search.
I guess there will be objections over the course of the coming days about it being an invasion of privacy.
In recent days, such ponderings on the nature of privacy have proliferated in Europe, particularly in France and Britain, albeit from divergent perspectives — and with different results.
