Personal freedom & public privacy

Last Friday’s White House traveling summit on cybersecurity at Stanford University featured sophisticated discourse about Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Centers and ISAOs—information sharing and analysis organizations. Underlying this Geek Speak, the attendees, led by President Barack Obama, faced some fundamental dilemmas rooted in the Bible, the “don’t tread on me” American Revolution, and the Constitution, complicated by our Information Age miracles. They debated: “what is privacy,” and “how to maximize both personal freedom and public safety?”

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