Survey: Will we give up privacy without struggle

Survey: Will we give up privacy without struggle -

what kind of private life we will in? 10 years? Will our lives be examined under surveillance or will we live voluntarily in a world where we have accepted the fact that "Big Brother" is always watching us? Recently, Pew Internet Project conducted a survey, "Future of Privacy," with 2,500 experts of privacy and asked for their predictions on what they thought privacy would look like in 10 years. The survey collected the opinions of professors, researchers, futurists, policy makers and heads of big companies.

When asked if there would be "a safe place popularly accepted infrastructure privacy rights in 2025, "45% of respondents said yes. However, 55% said no, citing the lack of incentive for governments and companies to self-regulate, the logistical challenges of creating a sustainable global system of privacy and the growing apathy that individuals their own privacy. "Most experts believe that companies and governments have little incentive to enhance privacy. This is partly because people have proven that they provide personal information for something as small as a cup of coffee, "said Janna Anderson, director of Elon Imagining the Internet Center.

Other study highlights include:

• Living in public will become the new default the volume of information we share will only increase in the coming decade .. Right now, every online purchase, search query, place of arrival, email and post social network is another drop of information that can be collected by companies technology and data brokers.
• Some people willingly trade their privacy for convenience and service. "People are increasingly listening all the time because they pay for" free "services offered by Google, Facebook, Twitter and other popular companies providing personal information that is sold as a commodity by these companies, "said Anderson.
• new tools could give people control over their data, at a cost. a handful of other respondents also predicted that privacy could be bought in the future, creating classes of people who can not afford private life.

"I think the dynamics of the security and privacy will be a bloody mess for the next decade, mired in the ugly politics and corporate greed," Microsoft Danah Boyd researcher said

Sources :. CNN and Pew Internet

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