Bruce Schneier: Data is the pollution of the information age. This is wholesale surveillance; not "follow that car," but "follow every car." More is coming. Will not wearing a life recorder be used as evidence that someone is up to no good?
Noam Cohen's friend: Privacy is serious. It is serious the moment the data gets collected, not the moment it is released.
From last year's best-of: So many things these days are made to look at later. Why not just have the experience and remember it?
Thomas Powers: Is more what we really need?
Stewart Brand: In some cultures you're supposed to be responsible out to the seventh generation -- that's about 200 years. But it goes right against self-interest.
The Pollution Of The Information Age |