Law in the Internet Society

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BriannaCummingsFirstEssay 3 - 15 Nov 2015 - Main.EbenMoglen
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 This past Friday I was an attendee at the SFLC Conference where I was able to witness the demonstration of FreedomBox. Eben has mentioned this in class many times but his words have not done it justice. The demonstration was truly revolutionary, I watched as ads disappeared from newspaper websites with ease and an IP website continued to think a computer was in Europe even though I could see it in front of me in New York City. There were also demonstrations of instant messages and phone calls being run through tor on a computer with an encrypted hard drive. FreedomBox is not a silver bullet but putting them in widespread circulation will undoubtedly change the way we (millennial) view the Internet and our privacy. Making us aware of this tracking in surveillance may not lead to everyone deleting their account but it may lead to us taking action to curtail the surveillance or 'game the system'. In an ideal world we'd erase our online presence with commercial entities that sell our information but I think we're far from an ideal world, most people don't even realize they're being spied on.
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The interesting part of the essay draft, from my point of view, is the identification of dependencies on service businesses that communicate through the Net. I would have expected you to investigate how, by legal, political, and technical means we could deal with the evident fact that all sorts of services (you didn't mention health care services) collect and manage data about us. You could certainly ask how far contract law can be used to include terms for user-protective data management, and how public regulation and general provisions on good faith and fair dealing might be made to help. Rather than diverting ourselves to FreedomBox, for the moment, let's ask about the legal and political contributions that the society can expect for dealing with the issues you've identified.

 


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