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Meetup : Portland Oregon
Discussion article for the meetup : Portland Oregon
Discussion article for the meetup : Portland Oregon
Do Corporations Have a Right to Privacy?
The link to Bruce Schneier's original post.
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether or not corporations have the same rights to "personal privacy" that individuals do.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed a amicus curiae brief in the case.
The brief makes legal and philosophical arguments for privacy as an important human right, and that it is not a corporate right, and does not need to be. It also contains a number of scholarly references on the topic.
I find the legal arguments against a corporate right to privacy convincing. Corporations in our current legal context are intentionally organized to provide certain types of public accountability.
However, I am not convinced by the philosophical arguments for restricting the right to privacy to individuals.
Control Fraud
A recent post by Bruce Schneier on control fraud.
Individual “control frauds” cause greater losses than all other forms of property crime combined. They are financial super-predators. Control frauds are crimes led by the head of state or CEO that use the nation or company as a fraud vehicle. Waves of “control fraud” can cause economic collapses, damage and discredit key institutions vital to good political governance, and erode trust. The defining element of fraud is deceit – the criminal creates and then betrays trust. Fraud, therefore, is the strongest acid to eat away at trust. Endemic control fraud causes institutions and trust to become friable – to crumble – and produce economic stagnation.
Can the same approaches used to build FAI be used to improve other types of systems?
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