Discover why privacy is a counterproductive, if not obsolete, concept in this startling new book
It's only a matter of time-- the modern notion of privacy is quickly evaporating because of technological advancement and social engagement. Whether we like it or not, all our actions and communications are going to be revealed for everyone to see. Exposed: How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity takes a controversial and insightful look at the concept of privacy and persuasively argues that preparing for a post-private future is better than exacerbating the painful transition by attempting to delay the inevitable. Security expert and author Ben Malisow systematically dismantles common notions of privacy and explains how:
- Most arguments in favor of increased privacy are wrong
- Privacy in our personal lives leaves us more susceptible to being bullied or blackmailed
- Governmental and military privacy leads to an imbalance of power between citizen and state
- Military supremacy based on privacy is an obsolete concept
Perfect for anyone interested in the currently raging debates about governmental, institutional, corporate, and personal privacy, and the proper balance between the public and the private, Exposed also belongs on the shelves of security practitioners and policymakers everywhere.
Table of Contents
Introduction xvii
1 Privacy Cases: Being Suborned 1
Security Through Trust 1
The Historic Trust Model Creates Oppression 2
Privately Trustful 2
Disarmed Forces 4
Missed Application 5
Harmfully Ever After 7
Open Air 8
Artifice Exemplar 9
2 Privacy Cases: Government/National Intelligence/Military Confidentiality 11
National Security vs Governmental Security 12
A Government is Not a Nation 14
Rationales 15
Rationale: Direct Advantage 15
Rationale: Overcome Other Secrecy 19
Rationale: Military Advantage 25
Rationale: Hidden Diplomacy 30
Rationale: Protecting Personal Privacy 31
Rationale: Emergency Powers 31
No Net Benefit; Possible Net Negative 33
Citizenry at Risk 33
Bad Public Policy 35
The Secret Police State 36
3 Privacy and Personal Protection 39
Your Exposure 40
Check Yourself 42
Take Your Medicine 44
The Scene of the Crime 46
You’re a Celebrity 49
4 A Case Against Privacy: An End to Shame 51
Cultural Shame 54
Location, Location, Location 55
Beneficial Shame, Which Might Be Harmful 57
Hypocrisy for Thee 59
5 A Case Against Privacy: Better Policy/Practices 61
Policy Based on Bad Data: US Police and Dogs 61
Policy Based on Bad Data: The DSM 64
Bad Data Derived from Concern for Privacy: Suicide 68
Counting Suicides 69
Motivation and Reaction 72
Famous Suicide 74
Jumping on Guns and Bandwagons 76
6 A (Bad) Solution: Regulation 81
Regulation = Destruction 83
Legitimate Fear of the Private Sector 88
Exceptions to the Rules 90
Chill Out 92
Power Outage 98
Top Cover 104
Now You See It 110
The Government Would Never Lie to Its Overseers, Right? 112
Stressing It 112
7 A Good Solution: Ubiquity of Access 115
If Everybody Knows Everything, Nobody Has an Advantage 116
Atomicity, Again 118
An End to Crime? 119
First Fatal Flaw 121
Other Fatal Flaws 122
Final Fatal Flaw 123
An End to the Need for Crime? 124
De-Corrupting Dis-Corrupting? Anti-Corruption? Something Like That 127
An End to Sabotage? 129
Power Imbalance 130
An End to Laws? 132
Lower Costs 133
An End to Hypocrisy 134
An End to Bad Policy 135
Speaking of Accurate Portrayals of Humanity 140
Vestigial Shame 142
Vestiges in Action 144
8 The Upshot 149
Science Fiction 150
Public Perception 153
Other Visions 155
Molecular Level 160
Busting My Hump 162
Style Over Substance 162
The Added Value of the Long Reach 163
Unchill 164
Troll Toll? 165
The Threat of Erasure 169
Get Out 170
On the Genetic Level 171
Still Scared 173
Index 175
