Anonymity as a thing of the past
Privacy vs. security in an age of Google, Facebook and MySpace.
As is too often the case, the story’s headline was quite misleading. Reading the AP headline “Intel Official: Expect Less Privacy” certainly got my attention, as did the second paragraph of the story: “Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information.” But reading Kerr’s actual speech and transcript of the Q&A session that followed it provides a rather different picture.
Source: Network World
