Peter Swire
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Peter Swire
Peter Swireis the Nancy J. and Lawrence P. Huang Professor in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an internationally recognized expert in privacy law. Swire is also a Senior Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum and a Policy Fellow with the Center for Democracy and Technology. During the Clinton Administration, he became the first person to hold the position of Chief Counselor for Privacy in the Office of Management and Budget. In this...
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It has to be secure by design, so grandma doesn't have to be a computer expert.
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Private industry spends billions of dollars on this targeting. The companies think it works. Why wouldn't it work for politicians?
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I think people get desensitized by cameras. They get used to them in casinos and then are less surprised when they are elsewhere.
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Accuracy that is good enough for marketing is not necessarily good enough to detain a suspect.
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It's everyone your teenager called from home, who is dating whom, contacts with reporters for politicians.
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One worry is that candidates will talk out of a thousand sides of their mouth. What if they have a thousand messages that are different for every tiny part of the population? It's much harder to get accountability for what candidates say.
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Cameras used for specific suspects and at specific times, that's good law enforcement. But I don't want it part of my permanent record every time I scratch myself on a public street.
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Recent revelations show even more clearly why the board is needed. The White House has had no privacy officials, and having privacy expertise in the White House will reduce the chance of mistakes going forward.
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What's done in the elevator stays in the elevator. Except when it doesn't.
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This raises new issues. Tracking people secretly is a worry. I think it would be good to clarify that strangers can't put these on your car without permission.