I
know you've watched a dystopian film. If you haven't, you're lying. If you've
watched The Hunger Games, that's a dystopian film. Yes, it's sci-fi and it
features some attractive leads. But the point is, they're oppressed, human
rights are violated and well, the word "individuality" carries not
much weight anymore.
The
original idea of dystopia probably came from the novel by George Orwell called
"1984". It alienated the individual by force injecting the ideas of
the political party down the veins of every citizen. That would mean private
life is also monitored regularly.
Privacy
is becoming an issue today with 1984's "Big Brother" taking form
through the Internet. China is making a move now as it forces tech companies to
create backdoors when in Chinese soil.
Urgh.
Apple
CEO Tim Cook contended against Western leaders and world governments that
privacy is compromised when companies are forced to create backdoors -
decryption keys to read encrypted private messages - it would mean that it's a
passageway for anybody with the means to do so to decrypt all private messages.
That would mean the end of privacy.
China
has made it into law as part of their counter-terrorism efforts against
militants and political activists.
But
yes, you might say China is a big infringer of human rights, with their Sina
Weibo Twitter-service-a-like under consistent government surveillance and
censorship.
But
if this idea spreads to others and sees the way China's privacy handling does
some positives, they would push for it.
And
that could mean trouble for us.
