Experts say Ottawa Senators Uber video raises privacy concerns
A secretly recorded video depicting NHL players venting about team personnel matters illustrates exactly why everyone from governments to companies need to get more proactive about privacy, industry experts said Tuesday.
Surveillance and data security scholars said they were not especially interested in the dirty laundry aired among the seven Ottawa Senators players during an Uber ride, but rather deeply concerned about the issues raised by the fact that the conversation was captured and shared without those players’ knowledge.
The incident, they said, shines a light on the growing ambiguity between public and private spaces as well as the shortcomings of current laws and social practices.
Scott Thompson, who studies surveillance technologies and their impact on society at the University of Saskatchewan, said past privacy legislation was crafted around the notion that private and public realms were distinct and could be subject to different sets of rules.