who possess your imformation?

and a translation work essay again. well, this one is definitely a hard bones for me to work out, and I guess there must be lots of mistake in this one. contents are pretty blur, even in Chinese version I could not got the idea from author sometimes.

anyway, I had learned lots of new words in this one. especially those terms in law and official statement.

OK, that’s it, have nice day. do not be confuse by my translation.

你的信息属于谁?
who possess your information?

作者:李翔 Author: Xiang Li
发布日期:2008-08-31 Date: Aug-31st-2008

经济观察报 评论员 李翔 中国正在对《刑法》的修订进行审议,最终可能会列入这样的条款:一些政府和商业机构的工作人员,将公民个人信息出售或者非法提供给他人,视情将处三年以下有 期徒刑或者拘役,那些信息的收买和获取者也或将同刑。显然,个人信息被垂涎的程度和难以保护的现状,已引起社会极大的不安——我的信息真的是属于“我的” 吗?

ECO commentator Xiang Li today, Chinese government is discussing a term about information in the penal code which may adopt finally. it was like this, some staff in government or commercial organizations should take 3 years’ limited imprisonment or detention depend on the situation if they sale or release the civilian personal information to others illegally, and same punishment to those who access these information. obviously, the amount of demands of personal information and the present situation that it is difficult to protect the personal information, both generated serious turbulent in society. after all, who possess my own personal information?

“真不知道这些公司的领导者在深夜怎能入眠”,数年前,当一些重要的互联网公司据称已将部分用户的个人资料提供给某些特定的索取者比如本国或外国的政府机构之后,《纽约时报》的一篇报道愤怒地问。

但是显然,真正不能入眠的是那些个人信息的“被掌握者”——包括信息被泄露的公民,也包括为自己的信息可能被泄露而担心不已的人。在极端的 情况下,这可能给个人带来灾难,比如《纽约时报》所责问的那种特殊情况;另一些情况下,个人信息的外泄会给个人带来不必要的麻烦。政治和商业都想通过侵入 个人空间来为自己谋取利益。而抵达个人的途径,随着信息网络的编织越来越精细,也越来越便捷。

years before, NewYork times had published a report after a declaration had been announced by some important Internet enterprises that some personal information of their clients had been provided to those special organizations like the governments. in the report, NewYork time irritated made a question that ” how could those leaders of these enterprises fall sleep? ” . but obviously those whom can not fall sleep is those whose personal information had been possessed by others, including civilian, and those who worried about the disclosing of their own personal information. in some extremely situation, this may lead individual get into disaster as the example noticed in NewYork times, and other circumstances may cause lots of personal unnecessary troubles. Political and commercial organizations both wants to make profit through crack into personal space, and as the information network become more and more exquisite, the way to access individual is also easier than before.

我们已经多久没有再做过关于“老大哥”的噩梦?乔治·奥威尔创造出的这个形象后来成为黑色乌托邦的代表。在《1984》的世界中,每个人 只是一个庞大网络中的一个节点,所有彼此相连的节点最后都通往一个最大的主机,主机尽头的机构可以知晓关于个人的所有信息。这是个毫无个人信息的世界,一 切个人的活动都像是在展览馆中进行;而作家约翰·巴特利在他关于Google和搜索的书《搜》中噩梦重提:“你知道吗?Google知道我们住在哪里。你 知道吗?还有更神奇的,只要有人问它,它就会告知人家我们的地址!”他还引用一封电子邮件说:“Google又开发了一项新的特色服务,你把某个人的电话 号码输入搜索框,然后按下回车键,就可以看到他家的地图了。在转发这封邮件之前,我在Google上输入自己的电话号码检验过了。我的电话号码输进去之 后,我点击了地图查询链接,然后它准确地给出了我住处的地图。这太恐怖了。”这位商业作家提到Google的数据被政府利用的可能性,或者政府对其搜索结果施加影响带来的后果。一位Google的高层说,只要有一件不体面的事情出现,Google就完全可能被公众视作专制政府的爪牙。

how long haven’t we dreamed the nightmare that ‘old big brother’? this character is stands for black Utopia after it had been created by Gorge. the world in the movie , everyone is just a node in the huge network. and those nodes connected with each others are all direct to the last biggest machine, all kinds of information about individual can be found in this biggest machine. this is a world that no personal information existed, all kinds of activities seems happen in the museum; according the book , the author John had mentioned that ” do you know, Google is aware where we living, and more amazing, Google will tell anyone our address if anyone request.” the author quoted a mail that ” Google had developed a new service, once you inputed someone’s phone number and press return key, you will be able to got the map of this guy. and before rewarding this mail, I had test that using my own phone number, and it definitely work, it released the accurate address of my home, that is terrible.” this author noticed the possibility that those personal data in Google can be use by government. a senior officer in Google had declared that only one shameful affair could leads Google to be regard paws of autocratic government by public.

商业对个人信息的利用和对个人空间的侵入要温和得多,但也让人可以毫不掩饰的厌恶。推销电话和垃圾邮件是最近的例子。二十世纪七十年代末期,当电话最早在美国得到普及时,商人们欣喜若狂。他们认为这是抵达潜在顾客的经济高效的方式,然后,针对目标客户家庭的电话推销增加了十倍——请注意, 这些目标客户家庭的电话号码是如何被推销员得到的?然后是电子邮件,个人身份的新标识——美国巴拉库达网络安全公司的报告中说,2007年全球互联网用户收到的电子邮件中,有近95%是垃圾邮件。这些垃圾邮件中的两大类是:推销商品和邮件诈骗。这些垃圾邮件中有一部分是随机发送,也就是说,发送者并不知道 它要传递给谁;但另一部分则相当精确,发送者经过筛选,挑出他认为最有价值的那部分地址。

commercial force are much gentle cracking into personal space compare with govern force, but still detested by public. recent examples are sales calls and spams. later years in 70s of 20 century, when the telephone become popularize, overjoyed businessman believed that the telephone is the most efficiency way to access their potential customers, then the amount of sales calls towards target clients had grow 10 times more, but notice this, how did they got those phone numbers of target clients? followed the E-mail, new identity for individual. according to the report from a American network security company, spams dominated nearly 95 percents proportion in all E-mails transfered through world wide web in 2007. these mails are classified into two catalogs, sales-mails and swindle-mails. and part of those spams are delivered randomly, which means the sender have no idea who will receive the mail. but others are accurately delivered, sender had sieved carefully and select those most valuable E-mail address for sending.

人们只能悲哀地发现,随着技术手段的进步,个人的身份也越来越多元,个人身份的标识可以是家庭住址、身份证和护照号码、手机号码、电子邮箱地址、信用卡号码……所有这些信息都被编织在一个庞大的网络之中。这个网络带给我们很多无需言说的便利。但是,正如作家马尔科姆·格拉德威尔所说:“属于一个大网络可能是一件很棒的事情,因为理论上,网络越大,威力越大。但是,网络在规模上扩大的同时,网络成员必须忍受的糟糕事物也越来越多”。比如在购房时留下电话(加入网络),随后是无休止地推销装修用品、家具、游泳卡乃至询问是否要假发票的电话。

we have sorrowfully realized that, as the develop of technology, individual define become complex, and it could be an address, ID card, VISA number, phone number, E-mail address, credit card number, etc, and all these information had be weaved in this huge network. well, it bring lots of benefits to us, but according a author namely Marco, ” belongs to a big network may be a wonderful thing, theoretically the bigger network, the bigger power, as the scale of network booming, nodes in the network have to endure more and more awful things. ” for example, once you leave the phone number when purchase a house, ( join in the network ), the restless sale query will then come.

人们越来越想在这个网络中保护自己不被打扰。比照麦克卢汉“媒介是人的延伸”的说法,这些个人信息也成为人的延伸。对它们的侵犯和利用, 都构成了对个人的侵犯和利用。格拉德威尔认为,人们最终会获得某种免疫力,比如现在人们对电话推销已经形成了免疫力,这种免疫力可以由技术手段来提供,对陌生电话进行过滤,或者装个电话答录机。其他各种都可依此类推。但是显然,最终的解决之道是,在非自愿和非必要的时刻,应该有某种制度来保证个人的信息不被泄露出去,无论这种泄露是出于政治需求,还是商业需求。

individuals are willingly protect themselves in the network by not be disturb. compare with the statement from Mr.Micheal that ‘ media is the extend of human ‘, these personal information are extended human. the crack or employ of personal information are definitely crack and employ towards to individual. well, Mr.Gerla thought that human will obtain the immunity finally, for example, people are now completed immune against the spams. on the other hand, the immunity may come from the technique support, for example, filter the unknown telephone number, or a auto answer machine, etc, and after all, the final solution should be a penal-code to make sure that personal information will not be disclosed in non-voluntary or non-essential situation. no matter political or commercial demands.


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