When it comes to digital data – photos, conversations, health information or finances – nothing can be perfectly private.
By Marissa Lang
Tech Culture Reporter
San Francisco Chronicle
Nearly a week before WikiLeaks revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency may be using personal electronic devices for espionage, a lawsuit settlement admonished Facebook for reading messages the company had led its users to believe were private.
These were not the first instances in which Facebook and the federal government have been accused of gathering information from people’s private devices, conversations or even homes.
And they won’t be the last.
What both cases show, experts said, is a grim slice of reality: When it comes to digital data — photos, conversations, health information or finances — nothing can be perfectly private.
And for those entities charged with keeping and protecting people’s data, including governments and big tech companies, what’s best for consumer privacy may not always be in line with their own priorities.
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