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I think all of us can agree
that we don't want to get discriminated
by our privacy decisions,
so will our next speaker,
Carol, tell us about the toll
of personal privacy in 2018?
Please welcome through some
of your hosts and given their warm
applause.
Privacy is that.
We hear that a lot
recently.
Some folks, especially
people, hear of this event today
may think
those are just bad
guys that
are just naysayers saying
what they want to be true.
But aren't we
fooling ourselves?
Maybe privacy is actually dead.
If we look at new products,
new ideas
appearing on the market,
what we mostly
see is that none of the
products take security into account,
like, look at this nice tweet from.
It's a valid account.
The real one People's Daily China
from this year.
What else can surveillance cameras do in
classroom other than exempts the
provision? And they actually have this
great system that they're really excited
about where you know, they
take a look at how students study.
Here's a Chinese classroom in question
and the
normal usual
classroom. Except, of course, we have a
camera.
We have a set of cameras set up
in there.
And how the system works
is that teacher.
Get this automatic view
of students sitting studying
how many students are there?
Are they paying attention or
are they boards?
Are they're happy or they're afraid?
So imagine
being in a classroom
and
not doing your homework so you sit
in the class. You may be having done your
homework and teacher sees that you're
afraid you don't want to be cold.
You don't want to be asked to report
on your homework.
They immediately sees that.
And of course, if you're sleeping outside
a party,
I mean, there is
a good intention
behind that making
systems more effective.
Not only this example here, other
examples as well, but privacy
is what's always at stake, and
privacy is what's never thought
about enough, in my opinion.
But OK, if you look at the examples I've
given, you know that just China being
China, Europe
doesn't do that for sure, right?
Well,
I thought that as well
until I decided to take a
look deeper and to make this
presentation to fair
the state
of the privacy with
you.
So let's look at visas.
I travel a lot, but I try
to avoid some territories.
I tried to avoid some countries because I
don't feel particularly comfortable
with a foreign government holding
my biometrics.
So that's why I've never been to the U.S.
I just
I just can't trust the government, let
alone the president does
that right now. But I just can't trust
the government that wants all
your fingerprints when you enter the
country. But I'm not a I'm not a
criminal.
Anyway, speaking of Europe.
So I thought it's just something that
U.S. does. Maybe some other countries,
Japan, but Japan, I think, only does
one finger or two fingers.
However, what they've learned is that
for many different countries,
many nationals coming to Europe,
coming into Schengen, the
process is quite similar.
Before making this presentation, I never
thought about
the fact that those people
also need
to give their
fingerprints to come
into
Europe,
come into Schengen, so we are
much better in
that regard
than the other countries.
OK, but you know, once again,
as Europeans and most of you here are
Europeans, we may say
it's not our problem, even though that's
not a good thing to say. So, you know, we
don't have to deal with that.
But passports, we do have to have a
passport, especially if we want to
travel, right?
So I'm going to tell
you about Latvia.
That's where I come from.
So originally, of course, passports
didn't have any biometric
data in them.
The classical good old passports.
Then maybe 10 years
ago,
a change happened and
the government started
requiring
you to give up your fingerprint to store
it inside a passport, even
though I'm a privacy zealot.
I think that's a good thing, right?
Because passport, forgery and
terrorism migration around the world
where terrorists tried to infiltrate
a different country and bomba building,
let's say that's something that
is not a good thing. Right.
So passport, as as long as
the fingerprint is inside the passport
and insecure container, that's OK with
me. But the thing is
so.
I made my passport.
I got it.
The thing is, I've had a suspicion that
what they're actually doing is
they
are also storing the fingerprint in
a database.
So he asked around most
countries in Europe have this equivalent
of the US Freedom of Information Act,
which allows you to ask what your
government is doing with data.
So I asked around and
they said, Yeah, yeah, we are actually
also storing the cache of the fingerprint
centrally in the database, not only your
passport.
I told them, Hey, but that's illegal.
You can't do that.
And then they drafted the law.
So we were having this conversation over
postal mail for like two or three
months. And while we were doing that,
they will quickly really in
a fast pace, making a law, saying that
they can do that, that they can actually
saw
the cache of the fingerprint,
but
turns out they are now storing the whole
fingerprint, even though that's not what
they promised.
So, you know, it's not that
simple. It's not.
It's not that easy with privacy, even
here in Europe. Of course,
banks,
anyone here doesn't have
or doesn't use at least mostly banking
card.
Three, three people for five, OK.
Four people in me, those are the five
people here in this quite large crowd.
So you should realize,
yeah. APPLAUSE, applause of the four
people. Of course you should realize, of
course. And I think you know that the
banks know where he is shop.
They know what you buy.
If it's a large product, they can this
thing. You should buy the price, right?
You go to the
car dealership
and they know if you buy the premium
model or the lower end the model, right?
Anyway, then of course, we
have online profiling
is a thing all over the world.
It's borderless.
It doesn't matter if you're in Europe,
if you're the U.S., you
get profiled even if you don't have
a Facebook account.
But luckily for us here in Europe,
EU has fixed that quite
some time ago. EU fixed that in May 2011.
So what they did, they said
users have to be notified of cookies,
so that fixes it, right?
Well, not really.
But then seven years later,
may they. They love me for some reason.
Are you fixed that in May 2018, right?
GDPR.
Now we're safe, huh?
Now we get this notice in addition to the
previous note. So,
you know, we're trying to fix this
really hard. It's not working yet.
I do hope
that the law
allowed cases that are coming
where
big corporations will get sued for
large
amount of money.
We'll actually bring change with that,
but for now, we are still fighting
a bit.
Then we have CCTV
and there's one country in Europe.
But we still have this year
that really loves their CCTV.
And here are
some actual posters, actual
photos of actual posters, I mean, I could
have taken the poster
pictures and put it nicely, but I just
want you to believe that it's a real
photo. There's a real poster put up by
the government in the UK,
so they have this nice poster saying
secure beneath the watchful eyes,
right? Then they have this poster saying
more CCTV means more security for
you.
And of course, my favorite
also we are watching you.
OK. This one, this one isn't real.
I removed a couple of words
from there, but it's basically what it
says anyway, right? We're watching out
for you.
So that's
what's happening, and they're selling
CCTV as if it's some kind
of great
feature for you.
OK, but
it doesn't really matter because
everyone knows that privacy
is for criminals, right?
We don't need privacy if we have nothing
to hide.
Well, if you're saying that
you should have that come placed in every
room of your house
and then we'll see
what you think about that,
really. In fact, privacy
is power, and this is a nice article
from Politico middle of this year,
and it's quite a short one,
but I want to share some key insights
what privacy as it goes.
People here at 35 43,
almost all of us would
agree
that privacy is important,
but when challenged
by a guy who says that.
Can we really explain why is that
important?
So here this article tries to do that, by
the way, it's been published one day
before GDPR came into force.
So this says privacy
is power dynamics between the individual,
the state and the market,
meaning that privacy is
your lever that you can use
when big corporations try to use
you as an object.
Then we have, as recent scandals, had
illustrated so vividly.
Privacy is also about the autonomy,
dignity and self-determination
of people.
So once again,
you aren't the products, you are
a person and you have the right
to determine what happens not only
to your body, but also
to your mind, also to your digital
self.
And finally, the third one.
Data protection must seek to mitigate
the inherent power imbalances between
people
and those
that
collect process and profit
of their data.
We didn't want the web
to become what it has become
today.
We just didn't imagine 20 years ago
that not paying for content online
would bring the Web
2.0 3.0, whatever that we have now.
You just couldn't have imagined that.
It's not that we wanted to save
five euros a month
to be abused by data providers.
Now I will
talk about
some personal privacy choices that I've
made during the past
years
while fighting for
privacy.
The turning point in my life was
that.
I was using Facebook back then.
And the turning point was that people
kept tagging me.
Yeah, yeah, I know it's bad, but
I was, I was asking.
It seems like a reasonable thing to do to
use for anyone to use Facebook here, by
the way.
Now.
Oh man, I see.
OK, well, good luck with that.
Anyway, so I was
using Facebook back then and the turning
point for me was people were putting my
information up without my permission.
They would take a photo of me, or we
would take a group photo and they would
put it on Facebook as it's something
natural to do.
And they would tag me and I couldn't and
I couldn't control it.
I couldn't really live with that.
So what I did was I just
stopped doing that anyway.
So the next couple of slides or
next 10 slides, let's say so
are going to be about my personal privacy
choices that I've made.
Some of the
slides will have a red line going
all over the slide.
That means I have considered that
privacy choice, but I haven't made this
because of the cost
of that choice.
So my first choice, as you can see, it's
happened quite a long time ago,
was
the operating system for my computer.
I was using Windows 98, which was the
latest from Microsoft at that time.
And then I moved to Ubuntu Linux, but
that those guys started doing this crap.
So as soon as you were searching
for some files on your laptop, it
would send your search up to the
cloud. So let's say you were you were
typing secret protocol
from meeting two days ago here, and that
would go up to the cloud that that text.
So I switched to Linux Mint.
It's not a big deal.
It's not a big cost.
I get slightly slower software upgrades
because it's a derivative, a clone of a
aponta, meaning that software updates
are delayed by a couple of days, maybe a
couple of hours. So that's nothing big,
right?
Then browsing habits.
So I was surfing
with
JavaScript and with Adobe Flash allowed
and now I saw without
JavaScript, with some exceptions and of
course, no flash.
So what I get is that's how a
page looks like to me.
When I want to open some pages, I want to
shout out to Hetty, who was the previous
presenter here for including
this this JavaScript thingy Joseph
Notifications page.
You can take a look about how
to use NoScript tags in this presentation
from CCC from two years ago.
It's a short one, I think.
But I get blank
pages all the time, so I have a limited
ability to choose my shopping provider
that I want to buy stuff from.
Then I'm going to show you
a small video here.
So this is me going to Google
reCAPTCHA test, filling a form and
checking a checkbox that I'm not a bot,
right? So what happens here?
I'm I'm asked to identify some street
signs. I do that a couple of times and
then I do it a bit more
and and a bit more so.
And it's not it's not
a joke, even
though even though it's a record.
OK, now roads, even though it's a
recording, this is how life is for me
on the internet.
It's even if I go to a regular page
and, you know,
road signs are usually on the road,
right? So if I see a roadside, it's OK,
so click Verify.
Ones are ones.
There are none left.
So OK, done right.
But no, not for Google.
Let them. So this is how it works
through a story. That's how it works for
me every day on the internet
when I just want to post a form.
So it's a bit hard, right?
So I was accepting and
honoring all cookies before
and now I only accept temporarily.
First party cookies and big
tracking giants do not like that, so
they make my life difficult.
I think I bought. I don't have any
internet history associated with me, so
it does take some time.
But
the funny thing about this is usually
takes just one minute, not two minutes as
this video here.
But oh, so
here's a street sign right now, but it's
a poster. So probably not the street
sign. It's, you know,
so, but it was the first attempt
at recording the screencasts, the
first attempt I got this year.
And do you have to actually click the
ones that are just part of a sign or
not? How does that work?
Anyway, it should be over soon.
I should be over to submit the form
fairly soon, just some more street signs,
and I think we're done. I hope they're
not using that for self-driving cars.
That would be terrible because it sure
seems they are.
Oh yes.
So, Cory, remarriage?
Yeah.
Man's just a mate. And once again, true
story. Maybe not humans, but one minute.
That's that's how I submit forms online.
That's that's how my life is.
I spend a lot of time there.
Luckily, I'm up over two years or so.
I make up some time typing fast,
then emailing.
I used to use HTML emails.
Anyone have heard or have used, they send
emails here, maybe using still.
Yeah, most of you wrote anyone not using
it in emails.
Wow.
Half and half, right?
Great. So, you know, normally people said
that they received this crap here
and the thing was all the formatting.
Why don't you have like a heather at the
beginning of your email?
Why don't you use lime and
pink colors in your text?
What's what's wrong with you?
So, well,
they say to me, but but that's OK.
That's a minor price to pay.
Problematic thing is emailing, so
I used to simply use a public email
service. Now I use my own domain.
I've been using my own domain for
20 years now.
I think 15 years, 15 years.
But Gmail users never get my first
email. I have configured all
their obligatory addresses
for my email domain.
Gmail users never get that first e-mail.
Never sent spam.
IP address has been the same for 15
years. No one no one know that since
you know good old times when you could
get an IP address that's not been used IP
for address the.
Been used anyway.
It's always goes in the spam and this is
a problem, you have to call people up and
tell them, Hey, you know, check spam, you
have an email
then
using my phone.
So this is a thing.
I had the semen six 65
that is my first phone was a color
screen. It was a feature phone Java.
And then I moved to Nokia three three
three zero.
It's a real thing.
I've added that I've had
it for like
until five years ago.
Then I moved to iPhone.
So the cost
was that I couldn't get
properly encrypted communications.
All I have on that phone
is mild
assurance.
The people are not eavesdropping
on
my communications in the room.
But when I actually call someone, I
cannot get proper encryption.
It does the old standards right.
If I one, it doesn't support five
three.
So that is a bit problematic.
That's why I actually have moved
away from this solution and just use it
as a secondary phone and use my
iPhone to communicate in
encrypted manner.
Then, of course, if you have iPhone, you
have mobile apps.
Five years ago, I was just getting my
first one, so I didn't have a smartphone
back then.
And what I do, I manage
my permissions carefully.
I do not give GPS permissions,
location permissions to my apps.
I, of course, don't allow them to access
contacts. I do not
allow them to access microphone or
camera.
So that means I'm fairly safe
as long as they trust the operating
system.
The thing
is, many apps will either
not
work
without giving them enough permissions
or will work badly.
So I'm forced to
use WhatsApp. Don't say Don't don't boo
me, but I'm forced to add WhatsApp as one
of the communication apps.
And of course, I'm not giving it my
contact permissions.
So how do I start a chat?
I go to my iPhone
dialer, the classical one.
I dial the phone number, the country
code. I dial it, I drop it.
I got recent calls.
I hold the button on the
on call. What's up appears I press what's
up. I call and WhatsApp.
I put the down.
I go to what the president calls.
Then I think then three, then I start
to chat.
Yeah, yeah, there you go.
You can do that as well.
So yeah, that's how it works,
but sometimes
don't work at all.
Like we have these taxi apps like
Uber Back and Latvian, and
I was trying out a new app and
new texting app that's just coming to
market.
I was going to a conference service,
going to the airport to fly away.
I installed the app.
I didn't provide any data, didn't give it
any permissions, and I think I'd
rather I see the driver putting
five stars for which
is the maximum for the ride.
I do the same.
I turned my phone off because I was
flying outside the EU and I
come back. A couple of days later, I
turned my phone on to order
a taxi back home from the airport.
Message greets me that your next
taxi ride may happen no sooner than
December 31st, 2022.
So I've been banned
because I didn't give them enough data.
You know, stuff happens.
Social networking, as you know, I
was using Facebook, I was using go
see nothing wrong as I.R.S., of course,
but it's a bit hard to use in 2018.
So I'm using ex-employer Twitter
and stuff like that.
The problem here, the cost is limited
social circle and social exclusion.
I have to pay
for
my choices
with less
people.
In my life,
I can communicate to just as some
amount of people, not the whole circle of
friends. For example,
me and my friends, well, my friends
were planning a New Year's party for the
31st back in Oregon.
The thing is, it was being planned on
Facebook and I'm not on Facebook, and
I was the one that wanted that
party the most.
And it's not going to happen because I am
not on Facebook. Everyone else is like,
Let's just not do anything this year.
So, you know, it has actual real life
consequences.
Really socializing?
Right. So after
being
put in this situation where
my social circle shrinks rapidly
and persistently, I decided
to socialize. So I installed all the
apps, all the communication
apps like, for example, Telegram.
Here, what I do
is I use fake phone numbers.
I come to a conference in Germany or in
Serbia.
I buy a phone number like a prepaid card
or register it.
And, you know, because they they are
asking for a phone number, except the
wire, which is, which doesn't ask.
So the problem is that your
accounts can be taken over when someone
else gets that phone number.
The good thing that I learned to make is
the protection is they can actually use
to store pin code on most of the apps,
meaning that when someone else get that
number, they cannot register it and
cannot take over your account unless they
know the five six digit or a passcode
for your account.
So that's my solution there.
This is actually quite good.
Then other people's apps,
so people
keep giving away my information
to different companies, even though I
haven't notarized them
to well, the
obvious solution here would, of course,
be to have private caller
I.D. or maybe take them to court,
but you wouldn't want to be taking your
friends to court, right?
So I haven't really implement this
either, even though I do have a private
caller I.D.
The problem?
The problem is it's not enough.
So you do have to actually threaten to
take your friends to court, which I'm not
doing. I'm not that bad of a guy.
Well, you know,
Facebook still knows your phone number
because your friends have given it
to them. Same for me
for photos.
I loved taking photos and I loved
being in a photo.
I really enjoyed that.
Well, when all the Facebook saga
happened, my personal one, not one of the
largest groups that they've had this
year.
So I decided, you know,
the easiest thing since you cannot really
be
suing your friends,
you can
just not be in a photo.
So that's what I do.
I try to avoid photos because it's much
easier to do that than to actually
control whether your friends will think
it's appropriate to put the photo on
Facebook or on Instagram or wherever,
right?
So now I'm just taking the photos.
I'm always a photographer.
If you're at a party and you need a photo
taken, I want to take our photon
obligatory
GDP, our slide. This doesn't 18.
So GDP or is the hot stuff right now?
Companies were mishandling
my data all the time before.
Luckily for me, I come from Latvia and
they've had a GDP, a local national
alternative for the past 15
years.
Actually, when GDPR
came,
it only changed two things in Latvia.
The fines got really, really big.
And it's not that easy to
compel government to.
Work with you to protect your data
because GDP R has specific exclusions
as long as the government publishes a law
saying that it's legal that we mishandle
your data, they can do that.
Our previous legal framework in Latvia
didn't allow that.
I actually got a senior
police employee
fined
â‚¬300 because,
you know, I sent them a data request
saying, Hey, I'd like to know what the
police knows about me, which was
perfectly fine under our national
legislation.
And they said basically in a letter like
one one paragraph where
the damn police, we don't have to tell
you shit.
So I went to court, I won.
There were fines, around 300
euros.
Turns out they had to pay or they
will not have to do that because they
mixed up the provision, right?
The thing is, if my company
is compelled to give some data about the
employee, for example, to the police
and the employee asks me for their
data, I cannot tell them that they gave
it to the police. But
at the moment, at that moment, there was
no exception for the police itself, so
employees could still go to the police
and ask, What did you hear about me?
So that was a nice loophole there
anyway. So now we you the
PR, which is cool.
And now what we have is companies are
lying to me that they are not mishandling
my data. I ask them how we mishandled my
data. They say nope and delete the
data quickly.
They do that a lot. They do that a lot.
So the cost here is, of course,
I
take a lot of time.
I'm not a lawyer, but life has
turned out in such a way that I like
or what
I've learned to like to write legal
documents.
So I sit and write lots of
lots of
letters just coming to a conference, a
different one in the airport.
They confiscated my screwdriver, which
was six centimeters long, which is the
maximum.
It cost 30 cents.
So what I did, I wrote them a letter
saying that, you know, I need you to pay
me back 30 cents and fort 140
euros for writing the letter, and please
donate that to some fund in my name.
They said no, so I just got the answer
for a week ago. We will have to see about
that anyway.
So I get lots of you don't have
anything better to do.
Questions, right?
You just got this company because
they have mishandled your data and
they're surprised to see you.
They are not used to spamming
people and then
having victims of that spam show
up in their office.
But that's what I do.
And they're really surprised.
So, you know,
then visitors, so
I sometimes have friends over.
I do have friends and I sometimes have
friends over and the
what happened once a guy comes
into the party and he pulls out his
phone, and so he asks,
Where does your Foursquare?
Check it? What's the name for Foursquare
thingy?
And I don't know what he's talking about.
Apparently, he wanted to check into
my home so that other people can see that
he's at my home.
I explained to him that, you know,
I don't have that stuff, he said.
No problem.
I'll take care of that.
And he he started making the
checking point for my home.
And then we came to an agreement that
he registered the point four hundred
meters away from from where I actually
live. But it's a bit strange.
So what I do now is I only have like a
close, trusted circle of friends
like 10 people that I invite
to my home. This is, of course, a problem
because every time I go abroad, I bring
the national drink back, so it just
piles, piles up.
And you know, I need to get the larger
flat that
loyalty cards
I've used to give my real
information to the companies when
using loyalty cards.
I know that
some of you still do that.
The thing is, I can't tell about Germany,
but back in Latvia, it's not a crime.
It's not a criminal crime to do
that unless it's not government.
As long as you give fake data to,
you know, to a company and you
aren't
gaining benefits, you're not entitled
to. That way, it's perfectly fine.
I was
actually a
victim of a data leak.
My name and surname got leaks in one
of the cases.
Luckily, I was smart enough to give them
all the other data wrong, but now I don't
even give them my real name and surname,
so that's what I do. The problem here is
that if something happens
and I want to request what happened is my
data. I cannot because I'm not John Doe,
I'm Kittles, and the name
on the file is a different one.
The it's, you know, catch-22 in
there,
then public transportation.
So.
We have paper based discount
tickets.
And the four students, I was
a student, I had the paper, but I just
can't take it like that.
This is 14 letters, about
20 euros and you could you could write
the whole month.
Then they created this thing.
This is RFID card.
So now if you don't want to get tracked,
you have
to use a paper based one trip tickets
without a discount.
And if you calculate the difference,
it's six point five times more
than actually having the discount.
So it's actually a huge
cost to bear.
And to make matters worse, what they
do, what the company, the
local government company does.
They actually
publish
where everyone is going, at what time
they anonymize their IDs
of
of the travelers.
But we managed to me and some of our guys
managed to correlate right.
We managed to actually thank the public
database and put name and surname to each
of the entries.
So it's not,
you know, so this is my solution to euros
per trip.
If I had that, I would pay 30 cents
per trip right now.
So it costs a lot
now banking.
I was using banking card to shop just as
many of you do now.
It's convenient when it works, if it
doesn't go bad.
But there are some countries that don't
even accept cash proper.
That's in some cases, right.
Many countries would not accept a
20 or 50 or larger
euro bill
to buy a transport ticket.
But they do accept cards.
So that is why I actually have
prepaid cards.
I pay cash and I use
prepaid cards a lot.
So the cost of this is
my gold customer status and unusable.
So the bank
that I've used a lot of, I lost the
status actually because I don't use it
for almost almost at all.
They decided to give me a gold customer
status either because of the amount of
transactions or the amount of money.
And so I come to the
bank and one of the
privileges of a gold customer is you can
skip the
line.
So there's
this device where you can
choose, what are you here about?
And I go to the
nice lady that's working out there and
say, I'm a gold customer.
I need to skip the line.
She says, Sure, just take your card
and swipe it at the device.
I tell her, I don't have a card with you.
I just have the account, you know, Oh,
she's a sorry, then you're going to have
to stand in line.
So there are some, some small
hiccups, right?
But booking flights and hotels is, of
course, really hard because
booking flights and hotels takes cards
in most cases.
I never managed to rent a car,
but I think it should be doable.
There are some companies that will take a
of deposits, a large cash deposit
and the local Uber Taxify
in Latvia blocks all my cards as soon
as I have the car to just block it.
So we're currently in the legal process
of fighting them.
About about this
last thing I have requested is that I
send them a selfie
with my passport at
my face to use their taxi.
I tell them if I want to do that, I'd go
on Instagram.
So we are still fighting
over that.
Then CCTV is obviously CCTV are
everywhere. You cannot walk in a major
city from point A to point B or inside
the major store without being filmed.
Obvious solution is to wear a mask.
Now it
could work. I mean, I've done that to
some extent because I ride a motorcycle
and in winter I use a mask to keep
myself warm.
So when I take my my helmet off, I
leave the mask on because it's still
cold.
And you know, some people don't like
that. Security guards look at you funny.
Sometimes they they ask you two
to ask you, Why are you wearing a mask?
You told them, because, because I'm cold.
Then they go away.
Sometimes they ask you to go away.
You know, I'm in Paris.
I wasn't wearing a mask in Paris, but I
was in Paris a week a month ago and
they go into the
shop with my
huge luggage
and I asked the security guard at the
door. Can I?
Can I leave this here while I go deeper
into the shop?
And the reply surprised
me, he says, You can't leave it here,
but could you please open it up?
We need to take a look.
I asked the one that you say it was the
last day of the trip. I was going to the
airport. I asked him, Do you want to take
a look at my dirty laundry?
He said, Yeah.
I said, Thank you.
No, I left the shop, obviously.
So security guards, you know, they have a
job to do.
But how daily?
Of course you would not be wearing a
mask. It's socially super unacceptable.
Additionally, multiple countries have
implemented bans on wearing a mask.
Unfortunately for me,
people like me and the people directly
affected, this is because
of some fear of.
People of different religions, people
of different origins where
they are afraid that, you know, we are
all going to start looking differently
than we are right now.
And people like me are also affected by
that to a lesser extent, of course,
than biometric passports.
I already told a small story about how
biometric passports came to be
in Latvia.
But I did try to
avoid
giving my fingerprints.
Now, not giving your fingerprints would,
of course, mean not having a passport,
or would it?
So me and my nice, my friend
who recently got to page at MIT.
Now he's in the U.S.
when biometric passports were created
in Latvia.
We decided to don't want
to give up our fingerprints,
so we had this strategic meeting.
We came to the meeting.
We are sitting and thinking, how do we
get the new passports without giving up
our fingerprint?
I open up the law.
I read through it with, think of
something. So we ended up with a bunch
of ideas and we took the top
two. He took the top one idea.
I took the top two idea
what he did when getting his passport,
applying for his passport.
He he asked a friendly
doctor
to
bandage both his hands like that.
From here to here and
went to get the passports.
What I did, which was top two in the
ranking, was I decided
to imitate a
painting accident.
So I mixed the for, which
is a base component of super
glue with black monitoring.
And then I just
dumped all my fingers in there because
the scanners in Latvia are optical,
which means it just takes a picture,
basically and then processes it.
Well, it worked for him.
He got his passport, even though now he
lives in the U.S. and still had to give
up all 10 fingerprints.
But it didn't work for me.
They just told me, Hey, come back.
Like when it goes off, I come
back in five days.
And apparently, employees are more
sensitive towards people who have a
medical condition instead of people who
work as color alerts.
So finally, creating photocopies
of my IDs.
I used to reply
to the request.
Can we copy your passports, sir?
Was yeah, sure. Go ahead, whatever we
need.
Well, now I just say, Nope, nope, nope.
Nope, you cannot copy my
passport
and it has
some consequences.
So I cannot use Revolut
N26 or for some reason, Taxify,
which is Zubac loan because they require
you to send this picture and a copy of
the passport.
Luckily, it's illegal to copy a passport
in Latvia unless it's done by a bank
or by a university,
which is strange list of exceptions.
Good people are getting annoyed, so
there are some really nice people,
genuinely nice people, and their boss
just told them, You need to copy the idea
of the customer and you don't want
to have this conflict, but you're you
don't feel comfortable giving them a copy
of your passports, right?
Because the thing was passport copies,
there are some people who would
indiscriminately
allow you to do
things just as a copy.
They would just allow you to take a loan
with a copy, even though it's not a lot
works. But that's the reality.
Once in Belgium,
I had to call the cops, so I was checking
into a hotel in Belgium.
I gave them my I.D.
and I explained how important it
is that the I.D. is not being copied,
and they verified that the clerk said,
Yes, we will not copy
your ID.
So given that he types Typekit types
on the laptop, on the computer,
then he grabs my the by his keyboard
and runs running through the
back room to
copy it.
I calmly take my phone call the cops.
My ID was stolen.
Can you go?
Can you help me out?
So then, you know, then had the cops have
had to call the hotel manager, they we
had a party.
They destroyed the copy and everything
was fine.
Since then, I carry my ID
on a leash.
So when I'm checking in, I kind of
unleash a strong strongman.
And so it it saves
some time when you don't have to call
the cops.
I've also been called an
asshole by a banker,
so the thing
is
banks are an exception and they can
copy your
I.D.
But my bank decided they want to scan
my I.D..
Now you might say
I'm being petty, right?
What's the difference?
But the difference for me is on the
photocopy. I can write with a marker.
If this has been handed down to Bank one
through three on the scan, they cannot do
that.
So since they insisted on scanning my
I.D., we spent three hours.
So I arrived at the bank 10 mins before
closing time because it was a relatively
relatively simple operation.
But we spent three hours, so two hours
in the bit after the closing time working
with them to. Resolve the situation
because I really needed to do the
operation that day, I had to pay my
taxes. It was a large sum, so had
increase they can't limit.
So privacy.
It's not
that, but
privacy is dying,
and
we have to do something about
it in order
for
it not
to die completely.
So the final tally is
socially, if you want to provide
enough privacy to yourself,
you will have some communication
challenges. It will be harder for you to
communicate with your friends.
Your friends and society as a whole
may
disapprove of what
you're doing and how you're handling
the situation.
Your social circle will be not
as large as it can be
financially.
You will have
limited choices online,
so you will only have some shops that
work with the JavaScript.
You will have limited list of hotels that
do not ask for a card
to book it.
And travel will be limited to the
companies that either accept
a friend's card for your travel or
accept a bank transfer.
Your transportation costs may increase up
to seven phones.
Technologically.
You will need much more time
to do the same things as a normal
person.
You will also
not get to use the new
technology at
the rate as your peers
will be able to do that.
You will probably not be part of the
Internet of Things craze, which is a good
thing. But still, for some, it may be
a cost to bear if they decide
to go this way.
And finally, you will have no access to
your own data. If you register an account
on a fake name
and you will of course not have
international travel if you don't have
your passport, by the way,
regarding accessing your own data,
I know that you see here are usually
there is a stand where you can
make an unofficial
thirty five to three ID
using whatever name you like.
I think it's highly illegal, but you know
there is a stand in case you want to take
a look at how the process happens.
So finally.
Privacy is priceless, and
we need to do something about
preserving it and preventing it from
dying.
There are a
couple of things that we can do.
First of all,
we can contact legislators and explain
to them
regularly how important
privacy is to us.
I know that many of
skilled people in it
don't have the clearest experience
in social communication
matters.
That is because they have dedicated their
life
working
in it, working for
to raise their experience in it to a high
level. So if you can't lobby,
you can complain on social media.
That's easy. Just just keep
keep mentioning all the important guys
where you can watch my presentation and
lobbying on on my website over there.
It's called lobbying something, something
you can take a look at it. It's
relatively easy.
If you're developing a system, you should
make sure to develop privacy conscious
systems.
You should make
sure
that the systems take privacy into
account.
If you're not a developer
demands that your developers
do that.
Ask them that
you need
the system to respect the privacy.
Refuse to use a system that's
not designed for privacy.
You should not be complicit if you have
to stand up for yourself.
You have to ask for
your privacy to be respected.
And finally,
remember
that doing all that
will make
you an example to others,
and that will allow you
to lead by example and
save
privacy for all of
us. Thank you.