Government crackdowns on encryption one of Kasperskys privacy predictions for 2021 – Backend News

Cybersecurity solutions firm Kaspersky sees that the privacy landscape will see more challenges now that organizations have a data mine spurred by the acceleration of digital transformation last year.

Vendors of all sizes will start to collect more and more diverse data while governments respond with new regulations and users start seeing privacy as a value proposition for which they are willing to pay.

Last year, many users realized for the very first time how much information they share and what they get in return, said Vladislav Tushkanov, privacy expert at Kaspersky. With heightened awareness comes a better understanding of the right to privacy and how to exercise it. As a result, privacy has become a hot-button issue at the intersection of governmental, corporate, and personal interests, which gave rise to many different and even conflicting trends in how data is gathered and privacy preserved or, on the contrary, violated.

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This forecast was developed based on the shifts and trends witnessed by Kasperskys privacy experts in 2020. According to the researchers, the big stand-off between various stakeholders in the conversation around privacy and data collection is a result of the following tendencies:

Consumer privacy is going to be a value proposition and will, in most cases, cost money. Increased data gathering during the pandemic, and growing political turmoil that crossed into digital platforms, have combined to yield rapid growth in public awareness of unfettered data collection. As more users look to preserve their privacy, organizations are responding by offering privacy-focused products the number and diversity of which is set to grow.

Smart health device vendors are going to collect increasingly diverse data and use them in far more diverse ways. The data gathered by fitness trackers, blood pressure monitors, and other devices provide insights so valuable that they have already been used in court cases, not to mention by marketers and insurers who also find it extremely useful. And with health being a public concern, the demand for such data will only grow.

Government crackdown

Kaspersky said governments are going to grow increasingly jealous of big-tech data hoarding and more active in their regulations. Having access to user data opens up a huge range of opportunities think, fighting child abuse or making city traffic more efficient. Also, think about silencing dissent. Yet, with most private organizations refusing to share these data, governments will undoubtedly respond with more regulations that hinder online privacy, with the most heated debates around privacy-preserving technologies such as end-to-end encryption, DNS-over-HTTPS (Domain Name System-over-Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure), and cryptocurrencies.

Data companies are going to find ever more creative, and sometimes more intrusive, sources of data to fuel the behavioral analytics machine. Data-driven behavioral analytics is a dangerous game to play. Errors can be damaging to people, while the actual quality of these systems is often a trade secret. Yet, that will not stop organizations working in this field from finding more creative ways to profile users based on what they like and do and thereby influence their lives.

Edge computing

Multi-party computations, differential privacy, and federated learning are going to become more widely adopted as well as edge computing. As companies become more conscious about what data they actually need, and consumers push back against unchecked data collection, more advanced privacy tools are emerging and becoming more widely adopted, while big-tech organizations move to guarantee users new and strict privacy standards. More advanced hardware will emerge, enabling developers to create tools that are capable of advanced data processing, thereby decreasing the amount of data shared by users with organizations.

On a final note, Id like to assert that while as consumers we dont have full control over our data, there is a lot we can do to reclaim some of our privacy and control of our personal data, said Tushkanov.

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