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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Vint Cerf: "Freedom and the Social Contract" (CACM)
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Vint Cerf: "Freedom and the Social Contract" (CACM)
http://j.mp/1baPM7r (Google+)
"The last several weeks (as of this writing) have been filled with
disclosures of intelligence practices in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Edward Snowden's unauthorized release of highly classified information
has stirred a great deal of debate about national security and the
means used to preserve it.
In the midst of all this, I looked to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's
well-known 18th-century writings on the Social Contract (Du Contrat
Social, Ou Principes du Droit Politique) for insight. Distilled and
interpreted through my perspective, I took away several notions. One
is that in a society, to achieve a degree of safety and stability, we
as individuals give up some absolute freedom of action to what
Rousseau called the sovereign will of the people. He did not equate
this to government, which he argued was distinct and derived its power
from the sovereign people ..."
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