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from the can't-they-find-a-new-excuse-to-steal-my-rights dept.
You have too many rights, so it's time for a little rebalancing:
Internet anonymity should be banned and everyone required to carry the equivalent of a license plate when driving around online. That's according to Erik Barnett, the US Department of Homeland Security's attaché to the European Union.
Writing in French policy magazine FIC Observatoire, Barnett somewhat predictably relies on the existence of child abuse images to explain why everyone in the world should be easily monitored. He tells a story about how a Romanian man offered to share sexually explicit images of his daughter with an American man over email. The unnamed email provider uncovered this exchange and forwarded the IP address of the Romanian to the European authorities and a few days later the man was arrested. Job well done.
Before we have an opportunity to celebrate, however, Barnett jumps straight to terrorism. "How much of the potential jihadists' data should intelligence agencies or law enforcement be able to examine to protect citizenry from terrorist attack?", he poses. The answer, of course, is everything. Then the pitch: "As the use of technology by human beings grows and we look at ethical and philosophical questions surrounding ownership of data and privacy interests, we must start to ask how much of the user's data is fair game for law enforcement to protect children from sexual abuse?"
(Score: 2) by rob_on_earth on Monday February 01 2016, @09:19AM
OK I can see that from his and certain others view points but the key thing here is you cannot force this on existing internet users, horse bolted etc.
So setup you magical pixie land where everyone registers to use it and see how many people trade from full fat *free* internet to your walled garden where everything is skewed in favor of companies.
"Oh but its safer and think of the children", I am
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @04:04PM
You think it won't work, but consider how many people own Apple products. People love walled gardens, they love being "kept safe from Bad Things".
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 01 2016, @04:22PM
There is nothing to indicate that one walled garden can overlap another walled garden with any success. Meanwhile, there are a lot of us who avoid the one seemingly successful walled garden that you mention. I don't believe that you can move the entire population of the United States into any walled garden, much less the entire population of the world.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.