> “If you’re an average internet user, you may not think too much about your privacy when you visit a random website,” says Reza Curtmola, one of the study authors and a computer science professor at NJIT. "But there are certain categories of internet users who may be more significantly impacted by this, like people who organize and participate in political protest, journalists, and people who network with fellow members of their minority group."
I get so dizzied by statements like this. It's almost as if researchers want to undermine their own work. Privacy can be essential for certain groups, but it should be a priority for everyone. Frankly I'm not even sure the statement about minority groups is true anymore. We've seen unmasking used by corporations, interest groups, governments, etc against a wide variety of people with dangerous outcomes.
I'd prefer we refactor messaging to make people realize that this is important to everyone and that we lay an impotus to do something about it, especially as governments all over the world are moving to eliminate personal and online privacy.
I get so dizzied by statements like this. It's almost as if researchers want to undermine their own work. Privacy can be essential for certain groups, but it should be a priority for everyone. Frankly I'm not even sure the statement about minority groups is true anymore. We've seen unmasking used by corporations, interest groups, governments, etc against a wide variety of people with dangerous outcomes.
I'd prefer we refactor messaging to make people realize that this is important to everyone and that we lay an impotus to do something about it, especially as governments all over the world are moving to eliminate personal and online privacy.