Christopher Soghoian: Your smartphone is a civil rights issue
Christopher Soghoian: Smartphone-urile voastre sunt o problemă de drepturi civile
Christopher Soghoian researches and exposes the high-tech surveillance tools that governments use to spy on their own citizens, and he is a champion of digital privacy rights. Full bio
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and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
și Biroul Federal de Investigații
în telefoanele sale mobile
into its mobile products
from everyone but the owner.
cu excepția proprietarului.
and yes, even governments
hackerii și chiar guvernele
this is a great thing.
asta e un lucru minunat,
a conscious decision
as difficult as possible
cât se poate de dificilă
smartphone operating systems
Android is made by Google.
Android e făcut de Google.
are as secure as possible.
sunt cât mai sigure posibil.
stored on iPhones by default,
toate datele stocate în iPhone,
Apple customer to another Apple customer
unui alt client Apple
to take any actions.
să depună vreun efort.
and it has a password,
și acesta are o parolă,
getting any data off of it,
să obțină vreo informație din el,
just really isn't as good.
nu e la fel de bună.
most of the Android phones
sau cel puțin majoritatea Androidelor
on the device by default,
datele stocate pe telefon,
in Android does not use encryption.
în Android nu folosește criptare.
un telefon Android,
all the data they want
toate datele dorite
companies in the world;
companii din lume:
of luxury goods to have products
de bunuri de lux să aibă produse
really, really dominates:
și cel de jos al pieței,
and a half people
și jumătate de oameni
has led to what I call
a dus la ceea ce eu numesc
o discrepanță tot mai mare
and security of the rich,
și siguranță a celor bogați,
that secure their data by default,
ce le protejează datele în mod implicit,
to protect them by default.
să-i protejeze automat.
a doctor, a politician.
smartphones in their pockets
smartphone-uri
their text messages,
apelurile, mesajele,
to secure their information.
pentru a-și proteja informațiile.
and the most vulnerable in our societies
și cei mai vulnerabili din societate
completely vulnerable to surveillance.
total vulnerabili în fața supravegherii.
to be seen as suspicious
să fie priviți cu suspiciune
by the state with surveillance.
are also disproportionately likely
that do nothing at all
care nu fac absolut nimic
that surveillance is a tool.
că supravegherea e un instrument.
are making it easy for people to encrypt,
fac criptarea mai ușoară,
who can protect themselves
or a cybersecurity problem.
sau securitate cibernetică.
for the poor and vulnerable users
săraci și vulnerabili
for our democracy.
pentru democrația noastră.
rely on technology --
depind de tehnologie --
to Occupy Wall Street.
la Primăvara Arabă, la Ocupați Wall Street.
and the members of these movements
acestor mișcări
and coordinate with smartphones.
tot mai mult cu smartphone-uri.
that feel threatened by these movements
amenințate de aceste mișcări
and their smartphones.
și pe telefoanele acestora.
or a Mandela or a Gandhi
sau Mandela sau Ghandi
from government surveillance.
împotriva supravegherii guvernamentale.
$20 Android phone in their pocket.
un Android ieftin de 20$.
to address the digital security divide,
decalajul de securitate digitală,
that everyone in our society
din societatea noastră
from surveillance by the state,
de supravegherea statului,
be exposed to surveillance,
vor fi expuși supravegherii,
movements may be crushed
pentru drepturi civile vor fi distruse
their full potential.
covers over his camera
își acoperă camera video
with his headphone mic jack.
a personal question, which is:
here, particularly myself,
în special al meu:
actually, I like Band-Aids,
-- eu prefer plasturii,
and put them back on
și lipi înapoi
sau să suni pe Skype.
a call or a Skype call.
pentru intimitatea voastră
you can do for your privacy
malicious software out there
(denumit și „rău intenţionat”)
camerei web,
This is used by stalkers.
E folosit de hărțuitori.
on your ex-girlfriend" software online.
software-ul „spionează-ți fosta iubită”.
it's used by governments.
a sexual violence component to this,
de violență sexuală,
can be used most effectively
poate fi folosit cel mai eficient
who can be shamed in our society.
care pot fi stigmatizați în societate.
că nu aveți nimic de ascuns,
you have nothing to hide,
aveți copii, adolescenți,
children, teenagers in your lives,
pe camera web să-i protejați.
on their camera and protect them.
CS: Thank you.
CS: Mulțumesc.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christopher Soghoian - Privacy researcher and activistChristopher Soghoian researches and exposes the high-tech surveillance tools that governments use to spy on their own citizens, and he is a champion of digital privacy rights.
Why you should listen
TED Fellow Christopher Soghoian is a champion of digital privacy rights, with a focus on the role that third-party service providers play in enabling governments to monitor citizens. As the principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, he explores the intersection of federal surveillance and citizen's rights.
Before joining the ACLU, he was the first-ever technologist for the Federal Trade Commision's Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, where he worked on investigations of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Netflix. Soghoian is also the creator of Do Not Track, an anti-tracking device that all major web browsers now use, and his work has been cited in court.
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