Privacy Is Doomed, Warns Incoming University Librarian Jeff Mackie-Mason: "Surveillance and privacy are waging a full-on arms race as technology advances, says Jeffrey MacKie-Mason...
:...UC Berkeley’s incoming university librarian and chief digital scholarship officer. And surveillance is winning.... In a developing world of ‘radical transparency,’ everyone ‘should get used to the fact that we can’t count on any information about ourselves being private.’... MacKie-Mason officially assumes his post at Berkeley next week (Oct. 1). Previously, he served on the University of Michigan’s faculty in information, economics, and public policy, and was dean of Michigan’s School of Information for the past five years...