Highlights:🔸 originally security was just not built into the internet🔸 free internet comes at a price, consider the flip sides🔸 the privacy paradox: even when people learn about the risks of sharing data, there's little evidence that they use it less🔸 even companies that have been hacked rarely go out of business🔸we're used to trading off immediate gratification or immediate benefits against possible future harms🔸Some people may be happy to have an Alexa in their living room potentially listening to what they're saying, but they wouldn't put one in their bedroom. Other people may never really trust a self-driving car because they see what's happening with websites and with other devices and they wouldn't put themselves in a car that they can't control.🔸 cars only had lap belts in the front and they were optional and then Ralph Nader writes the book (1965), "Unsafe at any Speed", highlighting the lack of safety🔸 It's difficult for a website to prove that it has good security. And so if you can't prove that you have good security or compete on it, there's less incentive to invest in good security. And also the downside is not that large🔸 contact tracing app use technology developed by Google and Apple, which was very privacy-preserving, it didn't keep track of your location, it didn't tell you the person you were in contact with. But as a paradox, even though many users give up far more personal information on a daily basis than was given to these apps, there was low trust🔸 Europe has really led the way with the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, which is very user-centric and gives us more ability to consent and control our data. But it's harder to control what happens when the data is moved out of the EU for processing in the United States or in other countries🔸 Internet of Things: I don't think all of the lessons of the Internet of websites and services online have been learned, that companies and governments have to really think hard about this as these technologies spread, because some of them, like self-driving cars, are online, are really going to have an impact on our physical being, not just our privacy.Source