One word links them all, even if not a flashy new word.When Johnson was asked by a German magazine to write a short commentary on the revelations of Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency NSAA) contractor who blew the lid on America's electronic eavesdropping, I was moved to muse that the German language had no straightforward word for "privacy".
Responding to a request for comment about the research paper, a Facebook spokesman, Andrew Noyes, said in an e-mailed statement: "Independent research has verified that the vast majority of the people on Facebook are engaging with and using our straightforward and powerful privacy tools — allowing them to control what they're sharing, and with whom they're sharing".
His recent installation in Madrid, titled Cameras, is a straightforward comment on privacy invasion and surveillance, as the army of security cameras fixed to an ordinary building's wall do not actually function.
The concept is "know your customer" — or KYC, as it's called on Wall Street — and it's straightforward: Given concerns about privacy, security and fraud when it comes to money, no bank is allowed to take on a new customer without verifying its existence and vetting its background.
Beyts's lawyer, Mike Dailly, the principal solicitor at Govan Law Centre in Glasgow, told the Guardian: "This is a straightforward claim for invasion of privacy, on the basis that the golf course has admitted that they weren't registered with the ICO".
The straightforward solution to protect data privacy is to encrypt sensitive data before being outsourced.
"Companies should be able to explain how they protect people's privacy in a straightforward way that makes sense to consumers," said the panel's acting chairman, Bob Warner.
Providing these more straightforward and easy-to-use privacy settings is a good first step--but for these changes to be effective, Facebook users need to know what the new controls are, and how to use them.
The biggest problem is that, unlike the straightforward, understandable approach to online privacy that the FTC has used for years, the new FCC proposal would create an irrational patchwork with illogically heightened requirements for broadband providers.
A straightforward methodology that can protect data privacy is to encrypt the data before outsourcing.
