[governance] Google in the New York Times:

[Andrea Glorioso]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:10 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Guru गुरु <Guru at itforchange.net> wrote:
>> Mr. Vint Cerf and friends and colleagues should also read another recent
>> (May 22, 2012)  NYT article
>>
>
> <snip>
>
>> Here it is the permissionless innovation that is trampling human rights....
>
> So if I am "war-driving" your home or office, I am violating your human rights?
>
> If so, pls. explain...

If you in the EU and, besides the SSID of my WiFi network, you are
intercepting the content of my communication (which is what Google
Streetview cars did - the jury is still open to what extent Google
manager were aware of this) you are most probably violating art. 7
(Respect for private and family life) and art. 8 (Protection of
personal data) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European
Union, as well as a bunch of other secondary laws.

Other laws regulating human rights may apply as appropriate in other
parts of the world - except maybe the US, where privacy/protection of
personal data are not considered human rights, as far as I know.

And no, the old argument "you should encrypt your data" does not
apply. You are still violating my rights even though I'm so
technologically dumb that I don't know how to use encryption (which,
sadly, is apparently true for a very significant portion of human
population).

I would personally argue that even intercepting the SSID / WiFi
network identifier and its associated data (is it encrypted or not,
etc) would be such a violation, but I can easily accept that this is a
much grayer area.

Best,

Andrea

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