Vint Cerf: 'Privacy's an accident of the urban revolution'

http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/features/1210768/vint-cerf-privacys-accident-urban-revolution/

by ximeng • 13 years ago

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nodata• 13 years ago

Most great things were "accidents": penicillin, x-rays, life.

ximeng• 13 years ago

Bit of a concern coming from a top guy at Google.

stephenr5• 13 years ago

hardly fucking surprising.

I don't get why so many seemingly intelligent people think Google/Facebook/LinkedIn/etc's whole approach of "get a heap of users, then mine the shit out of their personal data for profit" is OK.

thedrbrian• 13 years ago

Because they are blinded by the free.

anxiousest3• 13 years ago

One: he's not just a "top guy at Google" he's Vint "I invented the internet" Cerf.

Two: the headline is highly paraphrased, which I guess you know since you've read the whole thing. Also sociologically speaking even that warped baiting headline is technically correct.

So, again since you actually read the piece, you'd agree that the point he was making is that "privacy", important as it is, is a subjective and evolving concept thus society shouldn't use it to dismiss or outright ban certain new technologies.

stephenr5• 13 years ago

certain new technologies

of which his employer makes/uses/promotes several.

just because someone did "good things" previously doesn't mean their actions and/or comments are all inherently "good".

Vint Cerf: 'Privacy's an accident of the urban revolution'

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