Experts Forecast the End of Privacy as We Know It
Privacy's future appears muddy at best, judging from a survey released Thursday by the Pew Research Center and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center.
More than 2,500 Internet experts and analysts were narrowly divided on whether policy makers and technology innovators would create a secure, popularly accepted and trusted privacy-rights infrastructure by 2025.
Fifty-five percent didn't believe a structure to protect privacy would be in place; 45 percent believed such a structure would be created.
"There's lots of contention about how the future will unfold," Pew's Director of Internet, Science and Technology Research Lee Rainie told TechNewsWorld.
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In Europe, on the other hand, personal privacy is considered so sacred that Google complies with court orders to remove damaging personal information from search results. Land of the free, home of the brave ... because you can't hide anything from authorities or anyone willing to pay for your personal, private information. 
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