# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE # Copyright (C) YEAR Richard Stallman # This file is distributed under the same license as the A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe package. # FIRST AUTHOR , YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe n/a\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2020-10-28 06:25+0100\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" "Language: \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #. type: Title # #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:1 #, no-wrap msgid "A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:4 msgid "by Richard Stallman, 2018-04-03" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:8 #, no-wrap msgid "" "**The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet\n" "Union. We need laws to stop this data being collected in the first\n" "place.**\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:15 msgid "" "Journalists have been asking me whether the revulsion against the abuse of " "[Facebook](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/31/big-data-lie-exposed-simply-blaming-facebook-wont-fix-reclaim-private-information) " "data could be a turning point for the campaign to recover privacy. That " "could happen, if the public makes its campaign broader and deeper." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:21 msgid "" "Broader, meaning extending to all surveillance systems, not just " "[Facebook](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/facebook). Deeper, meaning " "to advance from regulating the use of data to regulating the accumulation of " "data. Because surveillance is so pervasive, restoring privacy is necessarily " "a big change, and requires powerful measures." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:30 msgid "" "The surveillance imposed on us today far exceeds that of the Soviet " "Union. For freedom and democracy’s sake, we need to eliminate most of " "it. There are so many ways to use data to hurt people that the only safe " "database is the one that was never collected. Thus, instead of the EU’s " "approach of mainly regulating how personal data may be used (in its [General " "Data Protection Regulation](https://www.eugdpr.org/) or GDPR), I propose a " "law to stop systems from collecting personal data." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:36 msgid "" "The robust way to do that, the way that can’t be set aside at the whim of a " "government, is to require systems to be built so as not to collect data " "about a person. The basic principle is that a system must be designed not to " "collect certain data, if its basic function can be carried out without that " "data." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:40 msgid "" "Data about who travels where is particularly sensitive, because it is an " "ideal basis for repressing any chosen target. We can take the London trains " "and buses as a case for study." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:45 msgid "" "The Transport for London digital payment card system centrally records the " "trips any given Oyster or bank card has paid for. When a passenger feeds the " "card digitally, the system associates the card with the passenger’s " "identity. This adds up to complete surveillance." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:52 msgid "" "I expect the transport system can justify this practice under the GDPR’s " "rules. My proposal, by contrast, would require the system to stop tracking " "who goes where. The card’s basic function is to pay for transport. That can " "be done without centralising that data, so the transport system would have " "to stop doing so. When it accepts digital payments, it should do so through " "an anonymous payment system." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:56 msgid "" "Frills on the system, such as the feature of letting a passenger review the " "list of past journeys, are not part of the basic function, so they can’t " "justify incorporating any additional surveillance." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:60 msgid "" "These additional services could be offered separately to users who request " "them. Even better, users could use their own personal systems to privately " "track their own journeys." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:66 msgid "" "Black cabs demonstrate that a system for hiring cars with drivers does not " "need to identify passengers. Therefore such systems should not be allowed to " "identify passengers; they should be required to accept privacy-respecting " "cash from passengers without ever trying to identify them." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:73 msgid "" "However, convenient digital payment systems can also protect passengers’ " "anonymity and privacy. We have already developed one: [GNU " "Taler](https://taler.net/en/). It is designed to be anonymous for the payer, " "but payees are always identified. We designed it that way so as not to " "facilitate tax dodging. All digital payment systems should be required to " "defend anonymity using this or a similar method." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:83 msgid "" "What about security? Such systems in areas where the public are admitted " "must be designed so they cannot track people. Video cameras should make a " "local recording that can be checked for the next few weeks if a crime " "occurs, but should not allow remote viewing without physical collection of " "the recording. Biometric systems should be designed so they only recognise " "people on a court-ordered list of suspects, to respect the privacy of the " "rest of us. An unjust state is more dangerous than terrorism, and too much " "security encourages an unjust state." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:89 msgid "" "The EU’s GDPR regulations are well-meaning, but do not go very far. It will " "not deliver much privacy, because its rules are too lax. They permit " "collecting any data if it is somehow useful to the system, and it is easy to " "come up with a way to make any particular data useful for something." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:100 msgid "" "The GDPR makes much of requiring users (in some cases) to give consent for " "the collection of their data, but that doesn’t do much good. System " "designers have become expert at manufacturing consent (to repurpose Noam " "Chomsky’s phrase). Most users consent to a site’s terms without reading " "them; a company that " "[required](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/29/londoners-wi-fi-security-herod-clause) " "users to trade their first-born child got consent from plenty of users. Then " "again, when a system is crucial for modern life, like buses and trains, " "users ignore the terms because refusal of consent is too painful to " "consider." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:103 msgid "" "To restore privacy, we must stop surveillance before it even asks for " "consent." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:112 msgid "" "Finally, don’t forget the software in your own computer. If it is the " "non-free software of Apple, Google or Microsoft, it [spies on you " "regularly](https://gnu.org/malware/). That’s because it is controlled by a " "company that won’t hesitate to spy on you. Companies tend to lose their " "scruples when that is profitable. By contrast, free (libre) software is " "[controlled by its " "users](https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html). " "That user community keeps the software honest." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:115 msgid "" "Richard Stallman is president of the Free Software Foundation, which " "launched the development of a free/libre operating system GNU." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #: A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe.md:121 msgid "" "Copyright 2018 Richard Stallman. Released under [Creative Commons " "Attribution NoDerivatives License " "4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/). The original English " "version was published in [The " "Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance) " "2018-04-03." msgstr ""