23 November 2007
Anonymity is dead.
At least that’s the word from one of the government’s top intelligence officials, who has redefined what constitutes an intrusion into people’s lives. Because no one’s anonymous in the age of the Internet, this official argues, privacy is basically what the government and the business community say it is.
"Protecting anonymity isn’t a fight that can be won," Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, said in a speech last month at an intelligence (...)