When a breach captures a part of us that is unchangeable, does it mean that we have allowed technology to pry too deeply into our lives?
We have read about the recently released footage, complete with facial recognition and deep looks into private spaces that were never supposed to be public, and wondered if it’s safe to trust the surveillers, the keepers of the keys, to replay snapshots of our lives, either with or without our permission.
An always-on digital eye, the mantra goes, will keep us safe. But how safe, and from whom? Never mind who is “supposed” to have access to the stored troves of our data, if Bloomberg reports are to be believed, we now have to ask what happens when, not if, the footage falls into the wrong hands. And once released, there’s no practical way to get it back. It feels like a part of our stories were just stolen, and there’s little that can be done about it.
Security was supposed to fix this – to keep private things private. It feels like in some way we’ve failed in the never-ending game of cat-and-mouse between protectors and thieves; we let this happen to us. But as long as there have been locks, there have been lock pickers, so the best approach is to assume a breach and realistically try not to pretend to achieve “perfect security”. Companies who adopt this stance tend to fare far better against attacks, both inside and outside the castle walls.
But when a breach captures a part ..
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