Tommy Skaug
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I read in a Norwegian news publication yesterday that [more
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than 50% of Norwegians doesn't care about Internet and
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network surveillance [1]. In the original 60 page report
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(survey and report ordered by the Norwegian Data Protection
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Authority), named Privacy 2014 - The Current State and
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Trends ("Personvern 2014 - Tilstand og Trender"), 46% of the
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1501 participants state that they've gotten more concerned
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with privacy over the last 2-3 years.
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The follow up question that the survey presented was "How
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much do you care about privacy?". In the 1997 version of the
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survey 77% said they were "pretty engaged or very engaged"
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in privacy, while in 2013 there's an increase to 87%. Not as
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bad as the news publication wants it to be in other words. I
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guess what is referred to is mentioned in the section "The
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Chilling Effects in Norway", where more than half of the
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respondents states they haven't changed online behaviour
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after the revelations of the American surveillance
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methodologies. I think this correlates to the next section
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(below). Also, more than 45% state that they would have
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continued as normal if Norway were to start a massive
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surveillance campaign in collaboration with foreign
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intelligence.
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I read one section where asked "how much control of your own
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situation do you feel you have?". More than half of the
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respondents answered themselves, and 33% the government. The
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latter is pretty amazing in my opinion. It's obviously
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yourself that is responsible for your own situation. Seen in
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regard to that more than 78% wouldn't pay 20 bucks a month
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for privacy in online services it's even better.
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The report also have it's own section dedicated to the
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Snowden revelations. Pretty interesting that 53% responded
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that they didn't care about the surveillance, it is
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unproblematic or that it's just plain
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necessary. Interesting, considering that it's another nation
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state than Norway we're talking about here. I could have
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understood it if it was our own government, but another
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country? Anyways, that's the facts.
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One question that I perhaps miss in the survey is "have you
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done anything to protect your online presence from
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surveillance?". One of the alternatives could for instance
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be: "I use end-to-end encryption, such as GPG". It was
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obviously not that technical a survey, and I can respect
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that - but at the same time I see that's where it have to
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end at some point. Thinking if I was employed in another
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type of occupation: I think people would have continued as
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normal if we get a mass-surveillance state because you get
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to a point of exhaustion due to the complexity of the
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technology and lack of knowledge on how to actually protect
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yourself. I also think that the hypothetical question of
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awareness of a mass-surveillance state would have had more
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chilling effects than people actually respond. The question
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actually reminds me of the Iron Curtain period, thinking
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that you are always surveilled.
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The survey can be read in full here [2] (Norwegian), and I
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think it's pretty good and thorough on the current state of
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privacy in Norway. The survey was delivered by Opinion
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Perduco. The 1997 survey was delivered by Statistics Norway.
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[1] http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digi.no%2F926712%2Fhalvparten-gir-blaffen
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[2] https://www.datatilsynet.no/Nyheter/2014/Personvern-2014-tilstand-og-trender-/
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