Feeling Old Today
Dec. 18th, 2014 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morgandawnIf man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find.....
"Today's privacy debate will bemuse the denizens of 2025, contended Hal Varian, Google's chief economist.
"By 2025, the current debate about privacy will seem quaint and old-fashioned," he wrote in his survey comments.
"The benefits of cloud-based, personal, digital assistants will be so overwhelming that putting restrictions on these services will be out of the question. Of course, there will be people who choose not to use such services, but they will be a small minority," Varian continued.
"Everyone will expect to be tracked and monitored, since the advantages, in terms of convenience, safety, and services, will be so great," he added......
...The Internet of Things, which will allow everything from toasters to watches to spew data about their users, will exacerbate the tech assault on privacy.
"Every object will become a spy," said Privacy.me's Neivert.
The level of surveillance that exists now will seem pale once everything starts communicating with the Net.
"Once we start wearing the Internet and our appliances are connected to the Internet, the level of observation, data capture and surveillance is going to explode," Pew's Rainie said."
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