Back in 1999, I remember being extremely agitated when Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said, "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it!" regarding consumer privacy protections. "How arrogant is this guy?" I remember asking. Little did I know he was speaking the truth, albeit earlier than most of us wanted to hear it.
His outlandish claim has since been backed up more recently by online juggernauts such as Google's Eric Schmidt and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. InfoWorld's Galen Gruman wrote an excellent article that should serve as a wake-up call about how end-users' personal privacy is being jeopardized.
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