Technological Standards and Infrastructures
| Type of publication: | Inproceedings |
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| Year: | 2016 |
| Month: | April |
| Location: | Barcelona, Spain |
| Organization: | 7th Biannual Surveillance & Society Conference |
| URL: | http://www.ssn2016.net... |
| Abstract: | The Snowden leaks reveal a complex network of state surveillance programmes that collect, store and analyse massive amounts of digital communications on a global scale. Indiscriminate access to personal information has serious implications for, particularly, high-risk users of digital communication tools such as journalists, activists, whistle-blowers and others and has led to a reassessment of the ways in which they communicate digitally. Drawing from interviews with members of relevant international institutions, this paper will discuss the role that standards organisations play in the undermining of citizen privacy by agreeing to technically weak implementations of protocols that maintain the Internet infrastructure. For example, this is done by organisations such as NIST and IETF agreeing to the design of ‘backdoors’ within standards. We will also discuss the increased need for citizens to use privacy-enhancing tools (PET) in their day-to-day digital lives and contrast this with the lack of training in their use which leads ordinary citizens to lack confidence in choosing the right technologies or the knowledge of how to use them appropriately. |
| Keywords: | Infrastructure, privacy-enhancing tools, Standards |
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| Added by: | [] |
| Total mark: | 5 |
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