Kevin Whitelaw: Users have been flocking to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, where they voluntarily share all kinds of details about their lives.
Jonathan Franzen: Privacy, to me, is not about keeping my personal life hidden from other people. It's about sparing me from the intrusion of other people's personal lives.
Matt Zimmerman: Everyone, if they are posting information online, unless they are taking very specific technological measures to prevent disclosures, should assume that that information is going to be able to be obtained through the legal process.
Decius: What you tell Google you've told the government.
Andrew Keen: In the future, I think there will be pockets of outrageously irresponsible, anonymous people ... but for the most part, we will have cleansed ourselves of the anonymous.
Siva Vaidhyanathan: It's the collapse of inconvenience. It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it.
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