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June 08, 2013
Professor of International Security: "Privacy is effectively a 20th century concept like the steam engine."
Steam engines never spied on anyone though.
...Richard Aldrich, a professor of international security at the University of Warwick, said he expected Mr Cameron to say "rather as President Obama has said, that you can't have your cake and eat it - you can't have 100% privacy and 100% security".
"What they're not going to say is, actually, we're very rapidly accelerating to a point where we're going to be in a transparent society," he told Today.
"Privacy is effectively a 20th century concept like the steam engine."...
Well, the 100% security part is patently BS and unattainable... particularly when the threats from the state start exceeding internal and external ones. If the value proposition of such a tradeoff becomes suspect, as it seems to have done, maybe its time to put down the crack pipe of impossible goals and back away from the table, eh?
Ostracize/weaponize/polymerize/tenderize the thread