Juan Enriquez gave a great analogy when it comes to how he explains each individual creating their own wireless footprint on the world wide web. He compares physical tattoos that someone might get to tell their own story to electronic tattoos that major media outlets use to distort privacy standards.
Enriquez says that technology advancements in recent years have lead facial recognition accuracy up to 94%. This outstanding statistic can be dangerous to families who want to remain private and stay away from identity theft. Enriquez gives the example of a random photo of a guy at a bar. Through the use of a website called Face.com, there are about 18 billion faces online that they have access to. In 2012, Face.com was sold to Facebook.
Catherine Crump is another speaker who shared her information on surveillance footage local police departments have access to. Crump says, "mass surveillance is enabling local police departments to gather vast quantities of sensitive information about each and every one of us in a way that was never previously possible."
This concept can be considered a major privacy violation. In the news today, it seems that the IRS and its tactics are becoming more and more questionable. Crump also digs deeper into police technology and how the multiple cameras mounted onto every angle converts license plates to readable text with a description of possible wrongdoings.
To take a turn for the worse, Crump adds that this police footage are taking note of every car that passes by, resulting in countless cars being logged into a database and information on where and when Americans travel.
To conclude, major media services and government systems have violated the privacy of Americans all over the country. According to Christopher Soghoian, there is a challenge to "build networks to be as secure as possible".
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