Attitudes toward privacy need more precision, In-Q-Tel CISO Dan Geer writes for The Christian Science Monitor, citing a Supreme Court ruling that a thermal imaging device used to detect marijuana in a suspect’s home did not require a warrant because it wasn’t “in general public use.” Geer writes that there is no need for “rules against things that are impossible,” suggesting, “If your personal ‘expectation of privacy’ is based on the impossibility of observability or even the impossibility of identifiability, then your logic, like that of the Supreme Court, is temporary and weak.” Instead, “We must change liability law so thoroughly and so substantially that data acquisition is no different from stockpiling combinations of lethal chemicals that grow increasingly dangerous as their varieties increase,” he writes.
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