'Navigation' spied for seven years recorded visits to each site Privacy? Says an executive of the Guarantor: "Anyone between 2001 and early 2008 has used the Internet needs to know that three of the major service providers in the country (Italy Telecom, Vodafone and H3G) three telecom companies have registered all traffic at the time. Not all did so with the same depth, and we noted in our measures of
January 17, 2008. Nor is it said that they have made continuously from first to last day. But that collection of data took place and that was the pretext needed to be ready to meet the demands of the courts. The point is that collect personal data that way and with the rudeness exhibited the same investigators to errors and wrong evaluations.
So, dear internet users in those years, be warned: somewhere there (and "should" no longer exist) a complex system of large hard disk on which there were addresses (URLs) of all our web pages you visit. "All, but all." The more you enter password to enter in your email, codes access to the bank (if the system was not protected), and even so, the password for that site a bit 'scollacciato that sometimes a cheer your evening a bit' dull. Not to mention the instant messaging and e-mail. Everything was "captive" and everything was readable.
Now, since January 2008 is no longer (and yes that resistance from the judiciary and police apparatus, why not continue with the trawl, there have been). Not only that in Italy has also adopted the system of "unique IP" which is a step forward in - in England, after the attacks of 2005, something similar has happened on a larger scale.
Question: But that information is then really been destroyed? Nobody knows this, but the official says he has no reason to believe that they are not been. And the problem of electronic track and full traceability of our lives remains, but it is said to be unsolvable.
The engineer Cosimo Comella is the manager of the Authority for the protection of personal data said these and other things at the seminar held in Rome from "Pasion," a project on data protection funded by the European Union in the seat Authority, with the presence of both the current (Francesco Pizzetti) that the first President (Stefano Rodota). Comella thinks that the public and the media are outraged or even alarming questions to the surface: "I do not explain why our measure in 2008 that put an end to that situation was largely ignored by newspapers." But this gives a very big chapter: the sensitivity of each of us to the theme of "data protection", not privacy, please tell the president as Pizzetti.
Why are we a country resigned not only to trafficking, tax evasion and the existence of the Mafia. But the idea that the violation of our lives we can not do anything. It follows from a new poll showed the workshop. So we watch with resignation to the fact that companies, now openly, make inquiries via Google on the people who have a job application. They do not is a mystery. "It 's now become almost useless to have a curriculum," says Supervisor Pizzetti, "That's just our version of our lives, then it will be put to the scrutiny of engines and social netwiork.
We Italians are resigned to the idea that the Internet is intercepted and studied in a way that outraged some other means. Yet something else going on that interception smartass. And we accept that the policy so supine think and legislate to the network without realizing what he's handling. Pizzetti Rodotà and express themselves differently, but their analysis make exactly this point: that governments and parliaments to use controls and censorship more thorough and indiscriminate because it does not know the object of which they speak.
can be taken to prevent an employer there studies on Google and find out that ten years ago, after a graduation party, we made a joint? You can not do much. And if the measure - says Rodotà - it's just self-censorship, the result is a devastating loss of personal freedom and expression. Because if we know that we also spied change our thoughts. "
But much can be done because our mail is not spied on, because our" page views " not to be spied on by those who should not, because our behavior does not become one and the only grain that is ground in the mills of the "behavioral marketing" on which they are invested millions of dollars and Euros every year.
You can do something and one of the answers is in the work of cryptographers. Cryptography is a branch of mathematics cultivated by a few, that is called into question when it comes to things military. But it could - is the subject of Joseph Smith, a mathematician and cryptographer at the University Roma 2, working in various EU projects - finding practical solutions and effective: we can have a "pseudonym" registered, which allows to "show the officer the license without telling your nome". Si può pensare a messaggi di posta che dopo un certo periodo si autodistruggano scomparendo dalla disponibilità di spioni e ficcanaso. Si può pensare a sistemi che controllino chi scarica abusivamente contenuti coperti da copyright senza frugare nell'attività online della persona. Serve una politica avvertita e colta. E un'opinione pubblica che non dica: "Non c'è niente da fare".
Vittorio Zambardino
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