A better definition of privacy is: When Mr. GovernmentAgent or Mrs. BusyBody asks, you have the ABILITY to say yes, no, or bugger off and they have no recourse in the matter but to involve magistrates. This is why the ABILITY to look up the information in the face-scanning, RFID-tracking, Money Monitoring, GPS, Insurance Service Evaluation system(s) (government or corporate), is an intuitive affront to most peoples' intuitive sense of what privacy is. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Shaddack [mailto:shaddack@ns.arachne.cz] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 5:48 PM To: cypherpunks@lne.com X-Orig-To: Adam Shostack Cc: John Kelsey; Shawn K. Quinn; cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver
Just wait 'till they integrate GPS, and GPRS or 802.11.
Transmitter is easy to find. Receiver is easy to jam with a micropower jammer. Sometimes all you need could just be creatively tweaking the ignition and antenna wiring to get "faulty shielding" in the right places; it requires much more experience to make it look "accidental", though.
Much of this can be seem in the OnStar systems, which haven't yet featured in divorce proceedings, afaik.
Matter of time. The next generation of sleuths will be much more tech savvy than the current one.
You can call up and find out where your car is.
..eg, in a nameless radio shadow.
Adam
PS: Bob Blakely once defined privacy as the right to lie and get away with it, which fits into some of what many people mean by privacy.
Another possible definition is the right to tell the truth and get away with it. But both definitions are rather about free speech than about privacy, but then we'd get to a fight over definitions which is in this context better to leave on the shoulders of people making encyclopedias.