Source: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/privacy/Fromkin_DeathOfPrivacy.pdf
Michael Froomkin, wrote a Stanford Law Review on the Death of Privacy. In the report, he talks about all these new technologies that will eventually ruin privacy. Froomkin talks about the current state of privacy, or lack of it. The technologies including surveillance cameras, cell phones, vehicle monitoring, and the Internet have given authorities the ability to track your every moment. He continues to mention the scary future of a world with no privacy and believes there will be a next privacy invasive technologies. This privacy invasive technology that could be developed and that he talk about is the Smart Dust. Smart Dust is a project the pentagon has been funding and it is currently in development. The Dust is a collection of millions of tiny sensors that can monitor the surrounding environment. As of 2000, the sensors were about 7 millimeters. By 2001, they wanted to reduce them down to 1 millimeter. So 15 years and millions of government funding dollars later, we can only imagine what this smart dust can detect and how far it has been deployed. The future of privacy invasive technology is frightening and we can only imagine how far it will go. In the future, I think that the government will invest in technology that will make it possible to monitor through x-rays and infrared radiation from satellites. What technology do you imagine with invade our privacy in the future?
-Dixon Anthon
There are a lot of technologies that exist where if used inappropriately, could be very worrisome. Just because they exist, doesn't mean they will be deployed. There is already push-back on some technologies that are evasive, so to assume invasive technologies will go unnoticed seems improbable.
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