Inside Apple's -CODE WAR-
The world's most powerful tech company is fighting the FBI on terrorism. Why?
by Lev Grossman / Cupertino, Calif. (March 28, 2016, TIME)
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It's an argument in favor not just of privacy but of a new kind of privacy, one forced on us by the utterly changed nature of the technological environment we now live in. Device by device, service by service, we have built over the past decade a world in which an amazing amount of what we do is recorded by our personal devices: our social lives, our health, our money, what we watch, who we talk to, where we go, what we look at. Ten years ago, if I went for a jog, any and all information relating to that jog would evaporate as soon as it happened. It would go uncaptured. Now that information is not only preserved - where I went, how far I went, how fast I went, what I listened to, what my heart rate was - it gets uploaded to the cloud and propagated across my social networks.
utterly: completely and without qualification; absolutely.
preserve: maintain (something) in its original or existing state.
propagate: spread and promote (an idea, theory, etc.) widely.
cloud: a communications network. The word "cloud" often refers to the internet, and more precisely to some datacenter full of servers that is connected to the internet.
The legal scholars Peter Swire and Kenesa Ahmad have coined a phrase for this: the Golden Age of Surveillance. Idly, and thoughtlessly, purely because we like the little conveniences and personal services that smart devices give us, we have comprehensively bugged ourselves but good. Devices like Amazon's Alexa or Samsung's smart TVs or even Mattel's Hello Barbie not only monitor the conversation around them but stream it to the cloud to be run through speech-recognition algorithms. They listen and report.
legal scholar: a jurist (a word coming from medieval Latin), also known as legal scholar or legal theorist, is someone who researches and studies jurisprudence (theory of law). Such a person can work as an academic, legal writer or law lecturer.
coin: invent or devise (a new word or phrase).
surveillance: the act of carefully watching someone or something especially in order to prevent or detect a crime.
idly: with no particular purpose, reason, or foundation.; in an inactive or lazy way.
comprehensive: including many, most, or all things.
bug: conceal a miniature microphone in (a room or telephone) in order to monitor or record someone's conversations.
The world's most powerful tech company is fighting the FBI on terrorism. Why?
by Lev Grossman / Cupertino, Calif. (March 28, 2016, TIME)
（第９回）
It's an argument in favor not just of privacy but of a new kind of privacy, one forced on us by the utterly changed nature of the technological environment we now live in. Device by device, service by service, we have built over the past decade a world in which an amazing amount of what we do is recorded by our personal devices: our social lives, our health, our money, what we watch, who we talk to, where we go, what we look at. Ten years ago, if I went for a jog, any and all information relating to that jog would evaporate as soon as it happened. It would go uncaptured. Now that information is not only preserved - where I went, how far I went, how fast I went, what I listened to, what my heart rate was - it gets uploaded to the cloud and propagated across my social networks.
utterly: completely and without qualification; absolutely.
preserve: maintain (something) in its original or existing state.
propagate: spread and promote (an idea, theory, etc.) widely.
cloud: a communications network. The word "cloud" often refers to the internet, and more precisely to some datacenter full of servers that is connected to the internet.
The legal scholars Peter Swire and Kenesa Ahmad have coined a phrase for this: the Golden Age of Surveillance. Idly, and thoughtlessly, purely because we like the little conveniences and personal services that smart devices give us, we have comprehensively bugged ourselves but good. Devices like Amazon's Alexa or Samsung's smart TVs or even Mattel's Hello Barbie not only monitor the conversation around them but stream it to the cloud to be run through speech-recognition algorithms. They listen and report.
legal scholar: a jurist (a word coming from medieval Latin), also known as legal scholar or legal theorist, is someone who researches and studies jurisprudence (theory of law). Such a person can work as an academic, legal writer or law lecturer.
coin: invent or devise (a new word or phrase).
surveillance: the act of carefully watching someone or something especially in order to prevent or detect a crime.
idly: with no particular purpose, reason, or foundation.; in an inactive or lazy way.
comprehensive: including many, most, or all things.
bug: conceal a miniature microphone in (a room or telephone) in order to monitor or record someone's conversations.