Designing these technologies into future networks, which include all telephone systems, would ensure that law enforcement organizations “have the same capabilities [they] enjoy right now.”
Predictor: Walker, Kent
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, Brock Meeks, a reporter for Communications Daily, a Washington, D.C.-based trade publication, writes a reflection on his experience at a panel discussion held by the Clinton administration’s Information Infrastructure Task Force Working Group on Privacy in the first quarter of 1994. Meeks quotes assistant U.S. Attorney’s remarks to the group, writing: ”Walker blithely referred to this cunning, calculated move to install interception technologies all along the information superhighway as ‘proactive’ law enforcement policy. Designing these technologies into future networks, which include all telephone systems, would ensure that law enforcement organizations ‘have the same capabilities [they] enjoy right now,’ Walker said.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: The End of Privacy: If Privacy Isn’t Already the First Roadkill Along the Information Superhighway, Then it’s About to Be
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.04/privacy.meeks_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney