Microsoft Thinks DRM Can Solve the Privacy Problem

Craig Mundie, senior advisor to the CEO at Microsoft, resurrected the idea, proposing that a form of DRM could be used to prevent personal data from being misused.(DRM).

With DRM technology, accompanied by laws and regulations to enforce it, we could provide the answer. “I think we’re going to have to have a usage-based way of controlling this now,” he said. “One way to do that is to put cryptographic wrappers around these things that control uses of this data.”

Mehr dazu bei http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520226/microsoft-thinks-drm-can-solve-the-privacy-problem/

Comment: The point is: "A central authority would distribute encryption keys to applications, allowing them to access protected data in the ways approved by the data’s owners." So you may convert the NSA to an organization of the UN or what?

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