Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet, is saying what seems inarguable at this point–that technology has outpaced our capacity to control it, that privacy as we knew it isn’t coming back regardless of legislation, that we’re at the outset, for better or worse, of the new normal. From a BGR post by Brad Reed:

“While having a right to privacy sounds nice, the Internet’s co-creator thinks that it’s also unrealistic to expect your behavior to stay private if you engage in social networking and post through social media. Adweek’s Katy Bachman reports that during a panel at a Federal Trade Commission workshop on privacy in the age of wearable computers, tech industry legend Vint Cerf said that new technology means that ‘it will be increasingly difficult for us to achieve privacy’ and that ‘privacy may be an anomaly.'”