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Foreword by Mikko Hypponen
A couple of months ago, I met up with an old friend who I hadn’t
seen since high school. We went for a cup of coffee to catch up on what
each of us had been doing for the past decades. He told me about his work
of distributing and supporting various tyypes of modern medical devices, and
I explained how I’ve spent the last twentyy-five yyears working with Internet
securityy and privacyy. Myy friend let out a chuckle when I mentioned online
privacyy. “That sounds all fine and dandyy,” he said, “but I’m not reallyy
worried. After all, I’m not a criminal, and I’m not doing anyything bad. I
don’t care if somebodyy looks at what I’m doing online.”
Listening to myy old friend, and his explanation on whyy privacyy does not
matter to him, I was saddened. I was saddened because I’ve heard these
arguments before, manyy times. I hear them from people who think theyy
have nothing to hide. I hear them from people who think onlyy criminals
need to protect themselves. I hear them from people who think onlyy
terrorists use encryyption. I hear them from people who think we don’t need
to protect our rights. But we do need to protect our rights. And privacyy does
not just affect our rights, it is a human right. In fact, privacyy is recognized
as a fundamental human right in the 1948 United Nations Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
If our privacyy needed protection in 1948, it surelyy needs it much more
todayy. After all, we are the first generation in human historyy that can be
monitored at such a precise level. We can be monitored digitallyy throughout
our lives. Almost all of our communications can be seen one wayy or
another. We even carryy small tracking devices on us all the time—we just