{"id":41162,"date":"2019-12-13T17:38:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T22:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41162"},"modified":"2019-12-13T17:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T22:38:17","slug":"the-economist-surveillance-is-a-fact-of-life-so-make-privacy-a-human-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41162","title":{"rendered":"The Economist: Surveillance is a fact of life, so make privacy a human right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/open-future\/2019\/12\/13\/surveillance-is-a-fact-of-life-so-make-privacy-a-human-right\">Surveillance is a fact of life, so make privacy a human right<\/a> by K.N.C.:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ONE OF the toughest questions of modern life is where to draw the bounds of privacy\u2014and privacy law. Digital technologies make a virtue of sharing. At the same time, the ability of governments and companies to keep people\u2019s activities under surveillance has never been greater. Slick artificial-intelligence algorithms depend on data, and creeping authoritarianism around the world means that the collection of vast quantities of data may be a recipe for disaster.<\/p>\n<p>A historical perspective on privacy in America is provided by \u201cNone of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age\u201d (University of Chicago Press, 2019) by Lawrence Cappello, a professor of constitutional history at the University of Alabama. He notes that America was founded partly in rebellion against the privacy-violating British, so the debate over surveillance is as old as the country itself. The laws have always lagged behind the technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist: Surveillance is a fact of life, so make privacy a human right by K.N.C.:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41163,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41162\/revisions\/41163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}