In the wake of newly revealed scandals about the extent of National Security Agency spying, a reasonable person would be permitted to say he or she no longer believes, or trusts, the NSA or the executive and legislative or judicial branches of government that supposedly police such spying.
"The three pillars of American trust have fallen," the Electronic Frontier Foundation says. "It's time to get a full reckoning and build a new house from the wreckage, but it has to start with some honesty."
A government that loses the trust of its people is in trouble.
Friday, August 16, 2013
NSA Spying: How Can We Trust Anything You Now Say?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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