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"A survey is a lot better from a privacy perspective, as all the information is freely volunteered.
This universal database is tenable from a privacy perspective because of the very limited information content of DNA profiles: whereas the genome itself poses a serious privacy risk, Codis-style profiles do not.
"The hobbyists are of less concern from a privacy perspective, but I am worried about surveillance of certain parts of cities by law enforcement using drones as though we were somehow in the theater of war," said Ryan Calo, director of the Consumer Privacy Project at Stanford Law School.
"From the privacy perspective, advertising-based business models are the ones that cause the greatest concern — digging into user activity to try to find some commercial value to be sold to someone else," Marc Rotenberg, the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a research center, told me.
Maybe the government intrudes on the family a little more than it did a hundred years ago (social workers look in on the old and the poor, health officials require inoculations, the police inquire about spousal battery), but from a privacy perspective these intrusions don't begin to make up for the small-town snooping they've replaced.
And, finally, assembling vast troves of raw surveillance information – whether voluntarily in the case of the recent proposed "cybersecurity" bills before the US Congress, or involuntarily under unilateral subpoenas called "national security letters" or secret court orders – is an inherently awful idea from a civil liberties and privacy perspective.
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J. Trevor Hughes, writing on a blog called Privacy Perspectives, said that "privacy has always been a difficult concept to define".
To ensure that the Court hears a broader range of privacy perspectives, I am calling on Congress to authorize the establishment of a panel of advocates from outside government to provide an independent voice in significant cases before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Arguably, from a privacy campaigning perspective, Snowden can be far more effective and visible by remaining at relative liberty in Russia, where he has been able to take part in various conferences and other public debates via videolink, for instance, rather than risking legal uncertainty and indefinite incarceration by returning to the US.
But the Senator's position is not only correct on the merits from a pro-civil liberties and pro-privacy rights perspective.
From a privacy and liberty perspective, this is a truly dangerous proposition.
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