Where is the border of the individual's privacy?

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Reporter Bashi

Snowden revealed the "Prism" plan, shocked the world. The public has suddenly become more aware that the US surveillance network has tentacles all over the world. Through the multinational giants that hold the terminals of Internet and communication technology, the US has access to intelligence and action tentacles that extend to the computers of the European Union's offices, to the central and local financial systems of other countries, to the transportation, communications, manufacturing and energy industries, and even to the remote destruction of Iranian nuclear facilities. The details of the "Prism" (Prism) show that U.S. intelligence agencies have access to server data in the transmission path of overseas communications. That means that as long as the United States wants, any country that is open to the United States will stand naked in front of the United States.

George Orwell's "Big Brother" stepped into the 21st century. The fear of national totalitarianism in the last century, the resistance of private individuals to national power, suddenly transformed into the invention and control of the world's superpower, the fear that the increasingly developed Internet is omnipresent--its power has far broken the physical space that divides the borders, In cyberspace, which is built out of data forts and barriers, it is ubiquitous, accessible to your brain and mind, and to your mind and mind. The power of information is pervasive, and it has become the dominant weapon in the current war situation. This is already a new world, the world is built by the network of a new order, we have heard a lot of rumors, but in the "Prism gate" incident to see the United States a new, is the information war to dominate the world's powerful strength.

The internet is pervasive in influencing global politics and the global economy, as well as in changing our daily lives. Ubiquitous data, ubiquitous networks, and large, distributed storage and computing capabilities faithfully record our clothing, food, living, traveling, and social status. Now, the amount of data that human beings create in one day is equivalent to the 2000 year. The physiological and psychological data of a person's life are recorded, which requires about 1000T of data (1024G equals a T). We have entered the big data age. Once the data has been analyzed, the network hidden in the data will emerge, the computer can be analyzed to determine which nodes in the network in the central position, through the information crossover, you can mining the data in a series of links. This huge data system, with its most traditional tribal organization and the most globalized distribution form, has reconstructed the past state-bounded intelligence space. But the question that Snowden warns us is: Who will collect, save and analyze the explosive mass of the sky? Who is going to make the decision and grant such a right to obtain and analyze the data? Where is the border of the country?

The new network of the world's vast space, like the 19, the 20th century European territory, the law of the jungle. In the face of a powerful information empire, it is not easy for nations to seek their own path of resistance and independence. The rules of human search for peace in the territories had undergone several brutal wars, and the international law had emerged in a negotiated compromise backed by force. What about the Internet world? What kind of Binghuangmaluan will it go through to find the order of nations? Or will the country's territory be dispelled, and the network will be replaced? Or, will the space of the network be reconstructed and reconstructed according to the division of territory?

As the events of the Snowden ferment and deepen, people's discussions unconsciously enter into the discussion of the evolution of the judicial and intelligence structures in the United States. People are eager to explore a possible institutional source. The internet was born in the United States, growing in the United States, spread from the United States to the world. The American approach to discussion and handling, perhaps not the only and compelling version, provides a realistic and thoughtful model for people to understand the order of the information world. How does America's law transition from the telephone-satellite era to the optical-network age? How to limit the misuse of eavesdropping? Why does the administrative power of collecting information expand, and how is it restricted by judicial power, and can it be transparent in the public debate caused by the leaks? What are the limitations of data collection? In what circumstances, What programs can be used to process and analyze data, and to map abstract data to real people and events? The problems exposed by the justice and intelligence systems in the United States may be the prerequisite for future discussions on cyber international law. The core issue that it concerns is the relationship and boundary between personal privacy and state power, security and freedom.

It should be said that the advent of Snowden prompted us to reflect on the state of our existence in the 21st century. As the tentacles of the national Intelligence system extend to private and social spaces, private individuals also gain more access to information, creating a series of leaks from Assange to Snowden, who are more monitored by the state, but can also challenge the country on a larger scale. The existence of Snowden in the 21st century, and his exile in national territory, his diplomatic rhetoric and condemnation, and the extradition of the international law involved in him and the power of the Government of the state, tell us that he is still in 20th century. This contradiction and its relationship to reality and the future is exactly what we need to discuss in depth.