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Vint Cerf: 'Privacy may be an anomaly'

10 points by denzil_correa 13y ago

kabdib 13y ago
Privacy may be an anomaly, but security is not. I'd like my financial data well protected, thank you.
Create 13y ago
Facebook should lean in and tell its users what it does. It should say "We watch you every minute that you’re here. We watch every detail of what you do, what you look at, who you’re paying attention to, what kind of attention you’re paying, what you do next, and how you feel about it based on what you search for. “We have wired the web so that we watch all the pages that you touch that aren’t ours, so that we know exactly what you’re reading all the time, and we correlate that with your behaviour here.” To every parent Facebook should say, “Your children spend hours every day with us. Every minute of those hours, we spy upon them more efficiently than you will ever be able to.” Only that, just the truth. That will be enough. But the crowd that runs Facebook, that small bunch of rich and powerful people, will never lean in close enough to tell you the truth. So I ought to mention that since the last time we were together, it was revealed that Mr. Zuckerberg has spent thirty million dollars that he got from raping human society on buying up all the houses around his own in Palo Alto. Because he needs more privacy. [Laughter.] I rest my case. http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html
Zigurd 13y ago
> "In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing." The "privacy is recent" argument ignores the nature of modern intrusions on privacy. Small town gossip has very little power to intrude compared with recording and word-spotting all your phone conversations and automating the analysis across the whole population.
eonil 13y ago
It's maybe true for his company because he is a VP in Google. Lack of privacy is very beneficial to the company. I wouldn't even consider any shit from a salesman from an ad broker company. If he really believe privacy is anomaly he can fix it first. Maybe he can broadcast his own house 24hrs. Maybe he can open his all the incomes and outgoings on the internet. I never seen this kind of people are doing what they say themselves.

10 points by denzil_correa 13y ago

Privacy may be an anomaly, but security is not. I'd like my financial data well protected, thank you.

Facebook should lean in and tell its users what it does. It should say "We watch you every minute that you’re here. We watch every detail of what you do, what you look at, who you’re paying attention to, what kind of attention you’re paying, what you do next, and how you feel about it based on what you search for. “We have wired the web so that we watch all the pages that you touch that aren’t ours, so that we know exactly what you’re reading all the time, and we correlate that with your behaviour here.” To every parent Facebook should say, “Your children spend hours every day with us. Every minute of those hours, we spy upon them more efficiently than you will ever be able to.” Only that, just the truth. That will be enough. But the crowd that runs Facebook, that small bunch of rich and powerful people, will never lean in close enough to tell you the truth. So I ought to mention that since the last time we were together, it was revealed that Mr. Zuckerberg has spent thirty million dollars that he got from raping human society on buying up all the houses around his own in Palo Alto. Because he needs more privacy. [Laughter.] I rest my case. http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html

Zigurd 13y ago

> "In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing." The "privacy is recent" argument ignores the nature of modern intrusions on privacy. Small town gossip has very little power to intrude compared with recording and word-spotting all your phone conversations and automating the analysis across the whole population.

eonil 13y ago

It's maybe true for his company because he is a VP in Google. Lack of privacy is very beneficial to the company. I wouldn't even consider any shit from a salesman from an ad broker company. If he really believe privacy is anomaly he can fix it first. Maybe he can broadcast his own house 24hrs. Maybe he can open his all the incomes and outgoings on the internet. I never seen this kind of people are doing what they say themselves.