Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data | Bruce Schneier | Talks at Google

Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, computer security and privacy specialist, will be coming to Google to talk about his new book:
"Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World"
"You are under surveillance right now.
"Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you’re thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it.
"The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we’re offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches.
"Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we’ve gained? In Data and Goliath, security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He shows us exactly what we can do to reform our government surveillance programs and shake up surveillance-based business models, while also providing tips for you to protect your privacy every day. You'll never look at your phone, your computer, your credit cards, or even your car in the same way again." (W.W. Norton & Co., Inc)

[@dhedc]

It speaks well of Google that Schneier was invited to speak. The whole event improved my perception of Google.

[@inund8]

Yeah, you don't see facebook posting the video of Bruce Shneier giving a talk.

[@mstott22lax]

if you go on your google+ accnt settings and take a look at your activity/privacy settings, which if you have i would probably go do that right now, google is actually very transparent and straight forward about how why and what they collect

[@culleneason5315]

They had an amazing culture and they have a lot of great employees (not just in their skills but in their general intentions). Unfortunately, all good things erode over time.

[@angelwishes3213]

@@culleneason5315 So true so sad... evil traverses like a deadly disease... all gets infected eventually

[@betadryl]

Great, thanks for sharing. Hope Google listens to his advice!

[@fudanchu8436]

Opting-out is definitely an option!

[@Chiramisudo]

Data powers deep learning and that's where the real danger lies. For this reason it's the imperative responsibility of every developer, hacker, computer scientist, data scientist, etc. to collaborate in an open source way to democratize and defend the internet from any world power or organization, as well as the use of any powerful AI.

[@MrPapiBanda]

really appreciate your thinking towards privacy

[@angelwishes3213]

or rise protagonists/ heroes

[@angelwishes3213]

inherent dangers gaining too much power and reach should really be common sense

[@sparhopper]

Wanna skip the intro? Go to 2:47

[@forwonder419]

Great sermon

[@DustinRodriguez1_0]

Also, does no one else find it very odd that Larry Page says in his book 'If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear' and then turns around and acts offended when he finds out that the NSA is tapped into his companies data center? Is it just a matter of he believes that corporations are deserving of privacy, but individuals are not?

[@Madsy9]

Or maybe he sincerely thought that governments could be trusted with these kinds of powers, and then found out that the trust was broken. Did he change his views accordingly afterwards? That's what matters.

[@MichaelHalcrow]

Dustin Rodriguez, Larry Page didn't write anything like that in any book.

[@dougiesd]

***** ll

[@beancube2010]

Organizations can be corrupt-able when you are cheap enough to be exploitable.

[@angelwishes3213]

lol effect of turning the tables and wait 'til it happens to you

[@hikibum]

Great talk.

[@leeleeleelee420]

amazing!!!!

[@shtroizn]

A must-see for pretty much every human being using modern technology. Fascinating and scary. Our usual way of thinking is: as long as we are law-abiding citizens - we have no reason to be afraid. How wrong we are. I for one never upload photos of kids (my nephews for instance) to a cloud storage website. But obviously this isn't enough.

[@angelwishes3213]

Ever hear of mean girls, jocks, and bullying... privacy, human rights, and self defense are a big deal for a reason... history proves it

[@angelwishes3213]

Humanity is weak and too much, absolute power corrupts absolutely

[@angelwishes3213]

History didn't even have access to high-tech we have today and still proves it probable

[@angelwishes3213]

Analogy: imagine if someone watching or has access to this sort of power doesn't like purple hair. They start to hunt and harass - like phenomenon of mutually exclusive cliques or groups studied in sociology and soft studies - all see and find with purple hair ... tyranny and persecutions heightens in so many words

[@mirusvet]

Good stuff.

[@angelwishes3213]

money, nature of man corrupts absolutely ... privacy and checks and balances on power are a big deal for a reason... history proves it... common sense

[@randistripe9628]

Is it ironic that this talk was supported by Google? idk

[@Tome4kkkk]

It's not ironic. It's actually a well established method of 'corporate helping'. They get onboard with problems to tackle in a way that doesn't actually change anything. In best case scenario, that is.

[@angelwishes3213]

... imagine fascism along with fascist tactics having access to this much power and reach... warning signs are everywhere... adage - letting powerful, dangerous tech in the wrong hands

[@MikeTrieu]

In early 2018, Google's End-to-End email project is still a joke that is nowhere near being ready to be widely deployed. Meanwhile, it relies on underlying encryption mechanisms that have no forward secrecy guarantees and actually increase metadata surveillance as malicious agencies can easily track where that public key is being used. And the secure communications industry has since moved on to ephemeral keys and cryptographic ratchets and even distributed and federated servers to weaken the effect of mass surveillance. Even Google tacitly admits this with their Allo messaging product that implements this system, albeit not on by default, lest massive adoption of E2E encryption stifle their machine learning ambitions. To be honest, I don't think secure and private communications can come from a company like Google. It's just antithetical to their raison d'être.

[@HarishBhagat]

Didn't realise Joe Caputo knew so much.

[@culleneason5315]

30:13 Declaring him a patriot or otherwise calls into question what a patriot is, and what we should be patriotic about. Some patriots would say we shouldn't compromise the operational strength of the NSA. Taking any power away from it is bad. Those are patriotic about the USA's governments/militaries ability to control. They consider them sacred on some level. Some patriots would say we shouldn't compromise an individual's access to personal freedom, even if it sometimes means increasing an individuals ability to commit crimes without being detected or stopped, or being detected and stopped later than they would have otherwise. These individuals are patriotic about the principals of the revolutionary government of the USA, principals which generally defy the modern, large government the USA has become. Snowden was extremely unpatriotic in the first category, and extremely patriotic in the second. Most Americans are never confronted with a choice that requires them to choose between those two forms of American patriotism, and hence they often conflate the two. They never establish which form of patriotism is more important, and why. Hence, "is Snowden a patriot" becomes a paradoxical question. Unfortunately, it is also becoming ever more relevant. Oh, hi there, NSA.

[@djoutline]

Undersea cable from Moscow to Vladivostok? There isn’t sea in between )))

[@cecechristian3791]

OKAY

[@farischugthai5598]

Wait did he just say current NSA tools are going to be used by hackers 2 years from now? Wannacry anyone?

[@itsamemario1772]

Faris Chugthai He's a f*cking time traveler!

[@angelwishes3213]

common sense

[@angelwishes3213]

... common sense ignored... why is privacy and secrecy in government itself such a big deal?

[@PassFissn]

talking again about not seing 7 million people move on something before ?

[@foobargorch]

huh?