Privacy for Tigers
Ross Anderson has some new work:
As mobile phone masts went up across the world’s jungles, savannas and mountains, so did poaching. Wildlife crime syndicates can not only coordinate better but can mine growing public data sets, often of geotagged images. Privacy matters for tigers, for snow leopards, for elephants and rhinos and even for tortoises and sharks. Animal data protection laws, where they exist at all, are oblivious to these new threats, and no-one seems to have started to think seriously about information security.
Video here.
jbmartin6 • October 16, 2018 7:54 AM
This makes me think of David Brin’s “Transparent Society”. It illustrates the value of privacy, but Brin’s premise was that complete loss of privacy is inevitable as technology grows more and more capable. His solution was a lack of privacy for everyone. So poachers might be able to find the tigers, but everyone else would be able to find the poachers since they have no privacy either.