Peter Swire
Peter Swire
Peter Swireis the Nancy J. and Lawrence P. Huang Professor in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an internationally recognized expert in privacy law. Swire is also a Senior Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum and a Policy Fellow with the Center for Democracy and Technology. During the Clinton Administration, he became the first person to hold the position of Chief Counselor for Privacy in the Office of Management and Budget. In this...
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Right now, there's no one at home at the White House when it comes to privacy. There's no political official in the White House who has privacy in their title or as part of their job description. Congress should take the lead here because this administration has not.
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Private industry spends billions of dollars on this targeting. The companies think it works. Why wouldn't it work for politicians?
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I think people get desensitized by cameras. They get used to them in casinos and then are less surprised when they are elsewhere.
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We have systems that are robust and strong enough to do important things like move money, but not apparently robust enough to allow privacy choice.
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It all could be linked up after the fact, and that was enough to lead to the federal policy.
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One worry is that candidates will talk out of a thousand sides of their mouth. What if they have a thousand messages that are different for every tiny part of the population? It's much harder to get accountability for what candidates say.
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What's done in the elevator stays in the elevator. Except when it doesn't.
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When someone claims that we should make a security improvement at the expense of privacy or other values, we should apply ordinary analysis to make sure that the security payoff is really there. If we get little or no security improvement and a large infringement on free speech or other values, then we should be very careful. If there is a big security payoff, then we deserve to look at that more carefully,
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Everyone is still trying to figure out how to share more often while still keeping the key stuff secret.
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Accuracy that is good enough for marketing is not necessarily good enough to detain a suspect.
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It's evidence that privacy is not being taken seriously. The guidance is very clear.
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It's everyone your teenager called from home, who is dating whom, contacts with reporters for politicians.
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This raises new issues. Tracking people secretly is a worry. I think it would be good to clarify that strangers can't put these on your car without permission.
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The more (the government) can figure out who the surfers are, the more peoples' First Amendment rights are in jeopardy.