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Does privacy matter? I was recently reviewing excerpts from an earlier interview by International Association of Privacy Professionals with Bruce Schneier where he was asked, "Is privacy the new environmentalism?" Schneier's reply was prescient,

Yes, and data is the pollution problem of the Information Age. Think about it. All computer-mediated processes produce data. Unless dealt with, it stays around. And its after-effects can be pretty toxic. And, just as 100 years ago we ignored pollution in our rush to build the Industrial Age, today we're ignoring data in our rush to build the Information Age. And, I believe, 100 years from now our great-grandchildren will look back at the decisions we made and wonder how we could have been so ignorant and short-sighted.

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