It Conversations: Future Proofing Your Privacy

This podcast addresses the issue of protecting your privacy today with threats from identity theft, malware, government surveillance, and consumer profiling. Marc Hedlund speaks about how can we best protect our future selves from the quiet hard drives of today, and what might it mean to have an "open data" movement. He lists the current threats that might lead to privacy problems later and then gives some defense techniques that should help provide future protection. He also proposes a modest call to arms, stating that privacy policies modeled on the General Public License (GPL) should be developed and suggests strongly that it is best to assume that any data made available is being added to the pool.