Sunday, November 25, 2007, 9:45am
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people's private communications and financial information.
In other words, your life is no longer private, it's all known and documented in dozens if not hundreds of places by the government and by the corporations (which are seeming more and more like one big entity all the time) and we're all supposed to trust them to keep it all secure.