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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

The viewpoint of the government is that the people must have full access to all information worldwide.

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.