(Left: Vint Cerf. Image from Wikipedia. Right: Tim Berners-Lee. Image from arstechnica)

Vint Cerf, considered one of the fathers of the internet, offered some thoughts on privacy at a workshop this month: "We're going to live through situations where some people get embarrassed, some go to jail, and out of that may come some social practices that are more respectful of privacy." 

And World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee spoke out against government spying, saying that the effect of government spying on internet freedoms could ultimately be more damaging to society than outright censorship.