Internet security expert says no such thing as online privacy

By Elise Worthington Posted Mon 12 May 2014, 9:42am AEST MAP: Southport 4215 International web experts will gather on the Gold Coast today to debate the challenges of internet security in the wake of revelations about the US National Security Agency gleaning personal metadata.

 US computer consultant Daniel Klein will tell the conference, internet users should basically presume nothing posted online is private and personal details are readily accessible. Mr Klein says to prove the point he has always posted his phone numbers, personal email addresses and the GPS coordinates of his house online. "I've been working on the internet since it first existed, you can find out things about me without very much difficulty, so making this information overtly public doesn't put me at any great risk because I know that it's always been covertly public," he said. He says privacy breaches like the Heart Bleed bug that left passwords across the internet vulnerable should cause a rethink of how information is stored and protected online. "We want to protect less and do it better," he said. "Because so much information is available, freely available because of crowd sourced information, because of things like Google and all sorts of data collection, that we've lost a lot of privacy, we've lost a lot of secrecy and that's good and bad. "When it comes to your privacy, you basically have none. "There are so many ways of getting at your information that you may or may not know about, that if I share something with two friends on Facebook, it's gone, it's public."http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-12/internet-security-expert-says-no-such-thing-as/5445830