Photo of Vint Cerf via Wikimedia Commons
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Having come from a small town of 1,500 myself, I would also argue that Cerf is fundamentally wrong about their poor quality of privacy. Sure, there is some truth that small town residents have a sort of invasive awareness of the town’s goings-on, but New York’s circles of wealthy elite also exhibit this type of social behavior. Hell, everybody does, to a degree. Despite what Cerf believes, privacy does exist in small towns. Secrets abound.If enhancing privacy is a worthy goal, then a good start would be giving Google users complete control over their private data. Otherwise, Schmidt and Cerf are simply hedging to please both customers and government.
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