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Passive surveillance...an outgrowth of proliferation of web-enabled devices and the resulting IoT. What our devices emit can tell more than we might want to share.

Interesting take on thinking beyond privacy issues when considering regulations about recording information about Internet usage. "Regulators need to take care not to treat the analysis of anonymized information as if it were an ominous new form of surveillance."

I felt obligated to put this here. Very insightful read. In the absence of meaningful gun reform, it isn't hard to imagine public spaces becoming more rigid, enclosed, and surveilled. That's a problem.

Responding to reports of mass surveillance, engineers say they'll make encryption standard in all Web traffic. One wonders why encryption hasn't been the default already.