Don't let big data become a big spy.

Last time, the father of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners, attended an event to discuss personal views on Internet privacy and large data. Increasing the protection of user privacy is necessary for the Internet because people have the right to see how their data will be used, he said. He also said the mechanism for providing access to personal data could lead to "rich data" rather than "big data" results.

He gave an account of individual cases. Individual cases should be able to be seen by doctors and relatives, he said, but certainly not for insurance companies and others to see. I agree with the remarks and views of Sir Tim Berners. This also by the way "ammunition" under, talk about the individual to large data, Internet privacy this topic.

Protecting Internet privacy is imminent

With the development of mobile Internet, a variety of data into a blowout state, today you share on the microblog birthday how, tomorrow and write at home mood how how low ..., these data actually include your various information, so that all kinds of privacy can not be hidden.

These privacy figures seem irrelevant, but they are actually priceless. Yes, the Los Angeles Police Department and the University of California have collaborated to use large data to predict crime, and Google's flu trend (Google Flu Trends) uses search keywords to predict the spread of avian flu. And the merchant uses this data, may judge to the consumer's liking, the estimate user's demand, thus provides some more unique personalized service. This piece of application also includes Baidu using search records to recommend, including the gradual improvement of Google Now.

But things are always two sides, the above is only the good side. Behind these humanization is the chilling privacy security. The information you share on the Internet is likely to become the most straw hacker will attack you tomorrow. The famous white hat "Piggy man" has shown such a picture: He has billions of security vulnerabilities, more than 1 billion account and password dictionary, tens of millions of attack scripts, hundreds of millions of tens of thousands of Web site configuration information into an analysis tool, these large data statistics and classification. Then, simply enter a Web site or a Netizen's information on the Internet, you can find the security vulnerabilities, and then you can directly attack.

If these data are generated by someone, and the purpose of the Outlaws is also directed against the person, the past and future of the person, near the "naked" in front of others, do you want? And what kind of results can you expect? Yes, I believe that the last time Hollywood women were exposed to the leaks, not just Apple, but also the reasons why women stars themselves do not protect internet privacy.

Quote someone else said a sentence as the end of it, the future outlaws do not necessarily need any superb technology, they are as long as the information mining and data integration master, their illegal purposes may be the same.

In particular, the age of wearable equipment, Internet privacy poses a greater threat

Next year Apple will release its wearable device, Apple Watch, and its release is likely to spread all kinds of wearable equipment, large and small. This popularity is a good thing, because it can give users a variety of convenience, but its health records, sports Tracking (GPS) and other functions of Internet privacy has brought greater and more challenges.

Wearable equipment because of small size, so the voice has become the most important way to interact with these devices, which allows some devices to record the user's speech data. But if voice-print privacy is not protected, and now the sound synthesis software is everywhere, then there will certainly be criminals using your voice to defraud. Imagine, if you have friends and relatives on the QQ to borrow money from you, your first reaction must be a call verification is true or false, if the outlaws with voice information synthesis, then you can tell?

It's not the deadliest of all, and the most lethal is that your joy and anger are in the hands of others. The issue of the safety of smart wearable devices is discussed in the October 2014 issue of the journal programmer. There's a passage that says:

Besides family, doctors and competitors, who cares if our heart rate is normal? But please don't overlook the problem. Once the heartbeat data is combined with other data, the secrets can be leaked far beyond our imagination. Just imagine that an attacker could hear our voice in real time and understand our heartbeat in real time, and then we would be like the Alex in "Nikita" by Amanda in a professional instrument polygraph. The difference is that the attackers are hiding in the shadows and we are not alert to this "polygraph". Combining the heartbeat data of the smart bracelet with the real-time image of the smart glasses, attackers may know our true emotions more than we do ourselves.

The above content seems to have nothing to do with Internet privacy, but in fact it has a lot to do with it. Because of our time, the emphasis on clouds, the emphasis on large data, our health data, although recorded on their own devices, but eventually more or less will be uploaded into the cloud. If someone with permission to view your data has an ulterior motive, then he can simply write down the time of the conversation and combine the data with the possibility that you are constantly being watched in life.

In addition to these, the wearable equipment on the GPS sensor is also a threat, it leaked the user's whereabouts, so that you can not hide.

So the question is, big data, Internet privacy?

When it comes to the Internet, many people understand the significance of the Internet in real-life applications. We can use the Internet to communicate, look up information, shop, play games and so on, but few people pay attention to the privacy of the Internet.

And people who understand the internet, they basically agree that as long as the internet has no privacy. Yes, the Internet is a huge global network, it is because of global, open, so the internet it has no privacy to speak, otherwise how to interconnect? This is the Internet starting point of the decision, as long as you do something on the Internet, you will do a trace.

This also makes a lot of people who talk about Internet privacy think the internet has no privacy, always uphold--the internet is not to privacy, to privacy is not the argument of the Internet. Indeed, the Internet is not private, but the Internet has no privacy can not protect privacy, there is a logic inside, there is no privacy does not mean that can not protect privacy.

I think Sir Tim Berners is right, and the prediction is very likely: the future will be a world where people have the right to see how their data will be used, and they should be able to control their own data and decide who to sell the data to. Users have control over, access to, and ownership of their personal data.

Yes, in the internet age, personal privacy has disappeared, this threat is not big, not fatal, because not everything connected, but with the cloud, large data, the development of Internet, it is necessary to establish a system that can protect the privacy of individuals, because this is the basis for future development.

Don't let the big data become a big spy.

It should be noted that the challenges of Internet privacy will not diminish over time and become bigger. In particular, the era of interconnected things is coming, any device will be connected to the Internet, large cars, small to ring, earrings, watches. All kinds of sensors, all kinds of equipment generated data, enough to let people with ulterior motives to track the life of ordinary users, so the privacy challenge is really unprecedented.

The future is an era of data, we really have to pay attention to privacy, protect privacy, do not let large data into a big spy.