Here Comes Technology Distrust
April 30, 2014
Sixty-seven percent of Americans believe that tech companies are violating their user agreements by cooperating with the US government’s spy tactics. ESET polled 2,000 people and got this startling response reports TechNewsWorld in the article, “Americans Distrust Tech Companies.” Many people in the poll reported that they changed their browsing habits, such as cutting down on online banking and shopping less online, after they became more aware of government spying on them. Fifty-seven percent believed that the spying helped prevent terrorism, but wanted laws enacted for surveillance regulation.
Not surprising is that money is exchanged hands and exposing more private information:
“Mobile app developers have been severely criticized for being too cozy with marketers. That’s resulted in lots of software that takes liberties with a user’s personal information after being installed on a phone. Google is tightening up some of the more seamy practices by developers with some new guidelines.”
The tightened regulations ensure that a user’s privacy is better protected, but that does not lessen the threat of attacks. The article continues to say that advanced attacks to get past an organization’s defenses are increasing. Hackers are becoming smarter to deal with more sophisticated security. Government distrust will grow too the more steps the take to monitor and prevent attacks. What legislation is being written to regulate government surveillance?
Whitney Grace, April 30, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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