How our digital devices are putting our right to privacy at risk
We live in a digitally connected world that has brought undeniable personal benefits.
Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson chats with Ars about his new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You .
“I liken this sort of police-driven self-surveillance to democratically mediated self-surveillance,” Ferguson told Ars. “It’s still self-surveillance with our tax dollars and everything else, but we are also creating nets of smart devices and surveillance devices in our homes, in our cars, in our worlds. And I don’t think we’ve really processed how all of that information is available as evidence and can be used against us for good or bad, depending on the sort of political wins and whims of who’s in charge. We’re seeing today how that vulnerability can be weaponized by a government that wants to use it.”
Ars caught up with Ferguson to learn more.
Ars Technica: You open with an anecdote of asking students how many use the Google Maps app, and they all raise their hands. That’s true for most of us. We rely heavily on these tools now.
