[governance] [bestbits] Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers

[Deirdre Williams]

As a serendipitous post script to my earlier message -
Latin America and the Caribbean are currently celebrating the fact that the
face of Ida Holz, an internet pioneer, has been chosen for a postage stamp
in Uruguay.
We ask that surveillance be "proportionate". Should our response to the
technology be proportionate too?

On 29 October 2015 at 08:54, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>
wrote:

> As you say, there is a huge temptation to say yes.
>
> There are also alternatives - even internet based ones, rather than postal
> mail - that are more privacy conscious and that everyone is perfectly
> welcome to / encouraged to use.
>
> On 29-Oct-2015, at 5:58 PM, Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> This is why the "human right" that concerns me most at the moment is the
> right to say no, the right to choose, the right to differ.
> Somewhere the sense that we have the freedom NOT to click has got lost in
> a compulsion that "this is the only way". "If I don't have Facebook I'll
> lose touch with my family." "This is a 'must have' app". These statements
> are still NOT TRUE, and we should not allow them to become true.
> Admittedly when recently I posted a letter to Barbados, just over 100
> miles away, I was told that the letter would arrive "in the next two
> weeks", but it did arrive.
> Without the internet the selection procedure which gave this thread its
> subject would not have been possible within the time, but it would still
> have been possible. Might have taken a year or two, but we could have done
> it. :-)
> We are supposed to be using the tool, not the tool using us.
> We have a choice and we should exercise it before it atrophies and
> disappears.
> Deirdre
>
> On 29 October 2015 at 02:29, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Those are applications that
>>
>> 1. You choose to install
>> 2. You choose to specifically grant those permissions to
>>
>> On 29-Oct-2015, at 11:28 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>>
>> Avast CEO shared analysis done by company of top 100 applications on
>> Android in the month of September.
>>
>> As per the analysis, 99 per cent of these applications have entire
>> control of mobile phone which means they remotely operate phone as a user
>> does and 92 per cent can view network connections.
>>
>> One out of 10 of top 100 applications can record audio and take pictures
>> and videos and 9 out of 10 are able to read storage content which can
>> modify or delete, as per the report.
>>
>>
>>
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