Privacy’s future appears muddy at best, judging from a survey released Thursday by the Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. More than 2,500 Internet experts and analysts were narrowly divided on whether policy makers and technology innovators would create a secure, popularly accepted and trusted privacy-rights infrastructure by 2025. Fifty-five percent didn’t believe a structure to protect privacy would be in place; 45 percent believed such a structure would be created.
The American people forecast the end of violators of our privacy. Period.
This sort of thing has been going on for decades from one degree or another. It doesn't take a genius to see the appeal of being able to in essence read the digital diary of anyone and everyone, and to know who are your friends that really are enemies, or potential threats, or even benign targets. It would be the closest thing to knowing a person for who they are truly without any filters. Only difference now is people will now know they should be more careful of what they say or type. Which adds an intellectual barrier to the data mining processes. I cannot help but to chuckle thinking back, that this topic would be considered only as conspiracy theory nut talk. Welcome to the party people, you're a tad bit late, but there are still plenty of nuts to go around.
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Experts Forecast the End of Privacy as We Know It
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. December 18, 2014 11:48 AMPrivacy’s future appears muddy at best, judging from a survey released Thursday by the Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. More than 2,500 Internet experts and analysts were narrowly divided on whether policy makers and technology innovators would create a secure, popularly accepted and trusted privacy-rights infrastructure by 2025. Fifty-five percent didn’t believe a structure to protect privacy would be in place; 45 percent believed such a structure would be created.