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Conversations At The Intersection Of IT Security And Society
Guests
Kristin Judge | Chris Cox
Hosts
Sean Martin | Marco Ciappelli
This episode:
The very thin line between monitoring and spying
It seems that, more often than before, when we address cybersecurity we end up talking about privacy and personal information. We talk about cyber criminals trying to perpetrate fraud and steal personal information, about companies violating trust to sell the data to a third party, IoT devices that collect way more data than they should and that get unauthorized access to our private lives by invading our home environment and our bodies. And, of course, there are the old cases of government institutions spying on citizens, and companies and states spying on each other.
And that’s just mentioning a few scenarios that have made the news. But what about when spying activity happens within the family walls: between couples, parents and kids? In all these cases, the line between potential beneficial monitoring of activities that can reinforce the safety of the subject can easily be stepped over, and the whole scenario turns from good to bad, and it becomes spying, stalking and abuse. This is when good technology turns “bad”, and the consequences become severe and extremely dangerous.
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