Already, new secure email systems are popping up ( ), secure chat ( tox.im), and docs and on and on. Add to that Apple’s vulnerability revealed last week (the developer site was compromised and possibly all developer info was stolen) and going to the Cloud is not even a good idea anymore.Īdd to this the fact that most growth in the economy starts with small companies (depending on how you do the numbers), and if a lot more small companies are opting to take the more “secure” route and avoid Amazon because of the NSA, then this means that the NSA is in effect creating a new market.
However, I know other startups that are also gnashing their teeth similarly and opting to not use Amazon or Google because of that. Every two days there is a new reveal from the NSA that they are invading users’ privacy even more or that they have some new back door previously unknown. We instead decided to host everything internally, behind pix, expand our infrastructure, and avoid the compromises that are sure to come as a result of the NSA backdoors that are ubiquitous. So recently we talked about moving our server to Amazon because of bandwidth and latency.īut now with revelations of NSA, Amazon is no longer a viable option. We use highly sanitized data so that even if someone captures our entire database, putting it back together is nigh impossible. Working for a small company who does business by selling small games, we have recently added a new networking component to allow people to chat while in game, make purchases online, etc. Kiesling’s contribution was reposted to Reddit, where a reader going by the screen name of Mkawick submitted this comment (slightly abbreviated here, with some acronyms spelled out in full): The federal government may not have intended to stifle the role of the Internet as an economic value-creating commercial platform, but that consequence is almost certain. How much economic activity on the Internet will leave those companies? Will government surveillance be able to access substitutes for these companies in other countries, if substitutes come into being? Isn’t this going to cause the commercial Internet to shrink? The economic implications of the deep and broad US government surveillance are profound.
Make no mistake: this deep and broad US government surveillance diminishes trust not just in the federal government (as if there is any general trust in the federal government any more), but also in Internet companies - communications companies, ISPs, Apple, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and so on. She began by noting that NSA surveillance is “much in the nature of the ‘general warrants’ that were the whole reason the authors of the Bill of Rights put the Fourth Amendment in there in the first place,” and then added: Consider, for example, an interesting exchange that began last week when Lynne Kiesling of Northwestern University posted a brief item on her blog, The Knowledge Problem.
The web has been abuzz with commentary on the effects of NSA surveillance on e-commerce. That remains true today, as we can see from the case of e-commerce. Still, as the founders knew, exposure to unreasonable searches and seizures can do real economic harm. Violation of an inherent right is wrong in itself, whether or not the victim can prove actual damages. Many people today still think so.įourth amendment rights today: The case of e-commerce They were, after all, raised on the writings of radicals like John Locke and Algernon Sydney, who taught that people really did have rights that stood higher than the prerogatives of government. Undoubtedly, the main reason for its quick adoption was that the founders of the American republic saw it as a moral imperative. Why were they written? Why don’t they include a national security exception-“ except insofar as such searches be necessary to protect the security of the United States”? Is the fourth amendment a quaint anachronism that we can safely ignore today, or does doing so cause problems that would make the writers of the Bill of Rights weep, were they able to see what is now happening?īoth moral and commercial considerations lie behind the fourth amendmentĪlthough the Bill of Rights, of which the fourth amendment is a part, was not originally a part of the constitution, the idea was proposed at the constitutional convention, and its ten amendments were added almost immediately after the constitution was ratified. All of us have read these words of the fourth amendment to the U.S.
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