"Privacy may actually be an anomaly," Vinton Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet, told participants in an FTC workshop on privacy and security in the Internet of Things. Privacy doesn't really exist in small towns, for instance. Further, consumers' social behavior is "quite damaging to privacy," Cerf said. For example, a photo of the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt posted on Facebook could include a stranger who might be tagged by someone who knows him, which could lead to the discovery that he had claimed to be somewhere else on that day.Internet of Things Will Burn Privacy for a While, Cerf Warns
"Privacy may actually be an anomaly," Vinton Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet, told participants in an FTC workshop on privacy and security in the Internet of Things. Privacy doesn't really exist in small towns, for instance. Further, consumers' social behavior is "quite damaging to privacy," Cerf said. For example, a photo of the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt posted on Facebook could include a stranger who might be tagged by someone who knows him, which could lead to the discovery that he had claimed to be somewhere else on that day.
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