Eben Moglen - Treating Privacy as an Ecological Problem
Channel: modplanman
Date: 2015-12-22

As part of a series of talks collectively entitled "Snowden and the Future", Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Centre argues that privacy should be treated as if it were a socially regulated, environmental problem rather than an issue of individual consent. Moglen points out that the permission to scan and read emails for the sake of advertising, for example, also implies the permission to read the emails of those who correspond with you, regardless of their individual consent.

This, he argues, shows that privacy is "relational among people", rather than an issue of individual consent or "transactions" between the data collector and the person consenting.

The full talk this video comes from, as well the rest of the talks in this series, are available in video, text and audio here:

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/

Yes, I realise the irony of posting this on Youtube. The video is originally licensed under CC-BY-ND 4.0.