Corrupted Nerds is about how the internet revolution is changing society.
We're completely rewiring the way the human species handles information and knowledge for everyone on the planet. And knowledge is power, right? So really, we're changing power relationships at every level of society. And I do mean every level.
Part of this power shift is about nation-states and war and espionage and criminal hackers, and certainly information security and hacking and the cybers are things we'll cover.
But Corrupted Nerds is also about the relationship between governments and their citizens, businesses and their customers, parents and their children and all the rest.
This is the Conversations feed, bringing you interviews and panel discussions with smart people who can help us understand all this stuff.
There's also the Extras podcast, containing related material that happens not to be a conversation. More podcasts streams may emerge in the future.
Corrupted Nerds is produced and presented by Stilgherrian.
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Corrupted Nerds is about how the internet revolution is changing society.
We're completely rewiring the way the human species handles information and knowledge for everyone on the planet. And knowledge is power, right? So really, we're changing power relationships at every level of society. And I do mean every level.
Part of this power shift is about nation-states and war and espionage and criminal hackers, and certainly information security and hacking and the cybers are things we'll cover.
But Corrupted Nerds is also about the relationship between governments and their citizens, businesses and their customers, parents and their children and all the rest.
This is the Conversations feed, bringing you interviews and panel discussions with smart people who can help us understand all this stuff.
There's also the Extras podcast, containing related material that happens not to be a conversation. More podcasts streams may emerge in the future.
Corrupted Nerds is produced and presented by Stilgherrian.
Conversations 12: Metadata & surveillance with Carly Nyst
Corrupted Nerds: Conversations
11 years ago
Conversations 12: Metadata & surveillance with Carly Nyst
The Australian government will soon introduce legislation making it compulsory for telecommunication companies to record the data about their customers' use of their services for up to two years, and make it available to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. But is it the right way to go?
"This is very much the way in which western nations are going, it's been the case in Europe under the European Data Retention directive for some little while now," said Attorney-General George Brandis on 16 July. But what he didn't say was that the European Court of Justice has declared the blanket recording of telecommunications data to be a breach of human rights. It isn't a proportionate response to the claimed threat, and there's no evidence that it'll actually even help.
"What we're being asked to do is ourselves -- innocent law-abiding citizens -- to sacrifice our own liberties, our own rights, in the vague hope that it will somehow catch these handful of Nazi Pedos who are out there," said Carly Nyst, London-based legal director of Privacy International. "Nazi Pedos" is PI's label for the "general all-encompassing bad person who lives on the internet" -- terrorists, pedophiles, cyber criminals, or whoever else we're meant to be afraid of this week.
Carly Nyst spoke about the legal and privacy issues surrounding the metadata proposals at public meeting titled "Data Retention: the European Experience", organised by Electronic Frontiers Australia and the Australian Privacy Foundation. This episode of Corrupted Nerds: Conversations presents a lightly-edited version of that event.
This conversation was recorded on 15 October 2014 in Sydney, Australia.
For full credits see:
http://corruptednerds.com/pod/c00012/
Corrupted Nerds: Conversations
Corrupted Nerds is about how the internet revolution is changing society.
We're completely rewiring the way the human species handles information and knowledge for everyone on the planet. And knowledge is power, right? So really, we're changing power relationships at every level of society. And I do mean every level.
Part of this power shift is about nation-states and war and espionage and criminal hackers, and certainly information security and hacking and the cybers are things we'll cover.
But Corrupted Nerds is also about the relationship between governments and their citizens, businesses and their customers, parents and their children and all the rest.
This is the Conversations feed, bringing you interviews and panel discussions with smart people who can help us understand all this stuff.
There's also the Extras podcast, containing related material that happens not to be a conversation. More podcasts streams may emerge in the future.
Corrupted Nerds is produced and presented by Stilgherrian.
