Abstract
The latest controversy over Malcolm Turnbull’s use of Wickr should provoke questions about accountability in the age of the cloud.
It’s an age where use of private messaging systems by a digital 1% – an elite that is well connected and powerful – is eroding expectations about oversight by journalists, official monitors and ordinary people. To adapt the words of writer David Brin, a privileged “Them” know a lot about us and increasingly “We” know less about them.
It’s an age where use of private messaging systems by a digital 1% – an elite that is well connected and powerful – is eroding expectations about oversight by journalists, official monitors and ordinary people. To adapt the words of writer David Brin, a privileged “Them” know a lot about us and increasingly “We” know less about them.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Volume | 2015 |
| No. | October |
| Specialist publication | The Conversation |
| Publisher | The Conversation Paperpress |
| Publication status | Published - 9 Oct 2015 |