Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance | CEOs are already preparing for a U.S. government shutdown | Why there is a bear market in rhinos | Unless Joe Biden stands aside, the world must prepare for President Trump 2.0 | Timothy Garton Ash

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� � � � � � Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance - WIRED    Suddenly, it feels like 2000 again. Back then, surveillance programs like [Carnivore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software), Echelon, and Total Information Awareness helped spark a surge in electronic privacy awareness. Now a decade later, the recent discovery of programs like [PRISM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program), Boundless Informant, and FISA orders are catalyzing renewed concern. The programs of the past can be characterized as "proximate surveillance," in which the government attempted to use technology to directly monitor communication themselves. The programs of this decade mark the transition to "oblique surveillance," in which the government more often just goes to the places where information has been accumulating on its own, such as email providers, search engines, social networks, and telecoms. Apologists will always frame our use of information-gathering services like a mobile phone plan or Gmail as a choice.Both then and now, privacy advocates have typically come into conflict with a persistent tension, in which many individuals don't understand why they should be concerned about surveillance if they have nothing to hide. It’s even less clear in the world of “oblique” surveillance, given that apologists will always frame our use of information-gathering services like a mobile phone plan or Gmail as a choice. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium CEOs are already preparing for a U.S. government shutdown - Fortune    Good morning, Peter Vanham here in Geneva, filling in for Alan.Looking from the outside in, it’s hard to understand why the most powerful government in the world decides to shut itself down every few years. As another U.S government shutdown looms, the financial consequences for millions of employees are immediate; those for the U.S. government’s reputation and creditworthiness appear farther down the road. CEOs are concerned about a shutdown’s impact on the broader economy. In a new poll by the Committee for Economic Development (CED), a division of the Conference Board, a nonpartisan think tank, a large majority (91%) of CEOs and board members surveyed said they are concerned that a government shutdown lasting more than a couple of days will hurt the economy. And a shutdown—perhaps a prolonged one—is indeed likely. With the deadline to avoid it—Saturday at midnight—just some 40 hours away, Goldman Sachs now puts the odds of a shutdown at 90%, Fortune‘s Will Daniel reported yesterday. If it does happen, each week of a shutdown will cost the U.S. approximately 0.2% in quarterly annualized growth, the bank also calculated. Continued here � � � � � � Why there is a bear market in rhinos - The Economist    How many people does it take to move a rhinoceros? Your correspondent suspects that the answer is “as many as you can find”. On a recent morning in the Northern Cape, South Africa’s largest province by area, a veterinarian fired a tranquilliser dart out of a helicopter into a female rhino’s rump. It then took 19 rangers, an electric prod and a lot of corralling to get the pachyderm into a crate. Once inside the animal was trucked to its new owner, another private game reserve. The buying and selling of live rhinos is not an easy business. Nor, these days, is it a lucrative one. The average price in dollars for a southern white rhinoceros in 2019 was almost 70% less than a decade earlier, according to Hayley Clements of Stellenbosch University (see chart). Today a male rhino costs about 150,000 rand ($7,900). Earlier this year John Hume, the owner of 2,000 southern whites—some 15% of the global wild population—received no bids when he put them up for sale. African Parks, a conservation NGO funded by international donors, stepped in to buy the rhinos at a fraction of his asking price. The bear market in rhinos is ultimately about economics. Call it the horn laws. The southern white, the commonest type, is a South African success story. It was hunted to near-oblivion. By 1929 there were just 150 left. “Operation Rhino”, launched in 1960 by Ian Player, a conservationist, revived numbers by distributing rhinos from a national park to private reserves. Continued here � � � � � � Unless Joe Biden stands aside, the world must prepare for President Trump 2.0 | Timothy Garton Ash - the Guardian    The president has had a good run. But the Democrats must choose a younger candidate if Donald Trump is to be kept out of the White House During the two months I spent in the US this summer, I kept asking every journalist, academic and analyst I met one simple question: “Who will be the next president of the United States?” The response was usually the same. First there was a distinct hesitation, then they said “Well, probably Joe Biden, but …” What followed the “but” was a long list of concerns, partly about deeper trends but mainly about how old and frail the 80-year-old president looks. Often, the conversation ended with my interlocutor saying it would be better if Biden stood aside, to let a younger candidate turn the age card against the 77-year-old Donald Trump. Continued here

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