In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns of the future consequences of social media and networks, and the vast amount of personal data that users put out there on the Web.
“I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,” he says. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites.
“I mean we really have to think about these things as a society,” he adds. “I’m not even talking about the really terrible stuff, terrorism and access to evil things,” he says.
He even suggested that today’s younger generation should consider changing their names in later life to escape their past online misgivings. That’s hardly a means to an end. Surely proactively encouraging the education of online privacy instead of suggesting a deed poll on your graduation day?
This is something I have harped on about many of times before, and privacy watchdogs are constantly filling the news of data privacy awareness campaigns and asking those to consider the consequences of identity fraud and suchlike.
Who is to blame?
It boils down to (forgive the pun) the chicken or the egg. One could argue the point of who’s fault it really is: the user for putting the information out there, or the search engines and social networks for collating the data and retaining it for vast periods of time.
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Source: zdnet.com
By: Zack Whittaker
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