The Significance of the Frontier: Why Privacy and Cybersecurity Clash
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The internet diminishes privacy. Perhaps it will ultimately destroy it. The effect of digital technology on an individual’s ability to control personal data raises serious concerns, but does disappearing privacy also mean the end of civil liberties? Not necessarily, and understanding how to preserve political liberties while privacy shrinks is an essential task for the digital future.
But privacy has come to mean more than the protection of personal data. Jerry Berman, one of the grand old men of privacy describes the Internet as a “revolutionary force.”1 Privacy today is not just preserving individual control of personal data, Privacy means preserving the original sense of unlimited opportunity the internet seemed to offer, as an unconstrained space for individual action.
Also read it from CNAS web site at http://www.cnas.org/node/6405.