Vint Cerf is recognized as one of the “godfathers” of the Internet. He talked to DW about the NSA scandal, the credibility of Google and the new Internet of things.DW: Do you think the NSA scandal has compromised the Internet and how the public perceives it?Cerf: First of all, it has been a struggle for all of us. Especially those of us who were not cooperating except within the rule of law. At Google, for example, we must provide some information under legal requirement. But a great deal of the information which apparently was obtained was not obtained with our agreement or consent. Our response at Google, frankly, has been to encrypt everything. So we have already started encrypting all the traffic between our data centers and we’re encrypting things that are in storage on the disk, like your email. That’s our response to protect our users. So the answer is, there’s been a sense of erosion of privacy, and there is a great deal of effort in my technical community to recover a sense of control over private information by using cryptographic and other tools in order to protect peoples’ interests.You know there is and there was a certain extent of cooperation between Google and the NSA, do you feel that Google has lost credibility among the community?
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