What Brian Kernighan thinks about privacy
Canadian computer scientist teaching at Princeton; spent three decades at Bell Labs in the group that produced Unix, C and C++, and co-authored The C Programming Language and The Practice of Programming.
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3 dated positions, 2008 to 2011, in their own words. Our reading of what Brian Kernighan has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsSocial networking sites are useful, but their business model is to sell detailed information about their users. As a result, our personal data spreads far and wide, our privacy is eroded and our risks increase.
↗Hello, World! Opinion columns from The Daily Princetoniancs.princeton.edu 5th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsAs an almost accidental byproduct of this progress, we have voluntarily given up an amazing amount of our personal privacy, to a degree that Orwell might well have found incredible.
↗Hello, World! Opinion columns from The Daily Princetoniancs.princeton.edu 3rd of 7 in this piece
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Our readingPrivacy is given away or sold off cheaply.
Their wordsExperience suggests that most people would be quite happy with such a trade - privacy is good but it is often given away or sold off quite cheaply.
↗Hello, World! Opinion columns from The Daily Princetoniancs.princeton.edu 4th of 7 in this piece