Intel official: say goodbye to privacy

During a hearing to review the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act, Congress was told by intelligence official Donald Kerr that, “…it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy. Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people’s private communications and financial information.” Right, because we all know what a great job businesses are doing keeping our data safe! It is unacceptable for an official to declare that our rights need to be usurped and then have us rely on businesses to keep our records safe; they’ve been failing to do that for years, why would there be any difference now? In fact, if Mr. Kerr’s plan went through, these companies would be bigger targets for exploitation as they’d hold a bigger payout for would be attackers. Come on, no more ‘give up your rights to survive’ rhetoric, we’ve had enough.  There’s more good coverage on this at Wired.