# HG changeset patch # User Christian Urban # Date 1455189947 0 # Node ID 7ecbf5339d0fc8da9b62758b5d9557b935c6b0c3 # Parent 48d0a9890adc76e1c99d51cb78c32acc236574e1 updated diff -r 48d0a9890adc -r 7ecbf5339d0f handouts/ho07.pdf Binary file handouts/ho07.pdf has changed diff -r 48d0a9890adc -r 7ecbf5339d0f handouts/ho07.tex --- a/handouts/ho07.tex Thu Feb 11 10:16:23 2016 +0000 +++ b/handouts/ho07.tex Thu Feb 11 11:25:47 2016 +0000 @@ -59,6 +59,30 @@ ``privacy'' looks a little bit like the old Wild West---lawless and mythical. +We would have hoped that after Snowden, Western governments +would be a bit more sensitive and enlightned about the topic +of privacy, but this is far from the truth. Ross Anderson +wrote the following in his blog about the approach taken in +the US to lessons learned from the Snowden leaks and contrasts +this with the new snooping bill that is considered in the UK +parliament: + +\begin{quote}\it +``The comparison with the USA is stark. There, all three +branches of government realised they'd gone too far after +Snowden. President Obama set up the NSA review group, and +implemented most of its recommendations by executive order; +the judiciary made changes to the procedures of the FISA +Court; and Congress failed to renew the data retention +provisions in the Patriot Act (aided by the judiciary). Yet +here in Britain the response is just to take Henry VIII powers +to legalise all the illegal things that GCHQ had been up to, +and hope that the European courts won't strike the law down +yet again.'' +\end{quote} + +\noindent Unfortunately, also big organisations besides +governments seem to take an unenlightened approach to privacy. For example, UCAS, a charity set up to help students with applying to universities in the UK, has a commercial unit that happily sells your email addresses to anybody who forks out