Even within the tech industry, there are opposing views as to whether corporate surveillance is a good thing. The American story of the web begins with “Father Of The Internet” Vint Cerf when he was at the U.S. Government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He’s now Vice President and Internet Evangelist for Google and told Wired in an April 2012 interview, “We knew what we were unleashing on the world.”
While Cerf’s prescient declaration of world impact is robustly reflected in the American technology corporation’s world ambition, our British friends give the credit for “Father of the Internet” to Professor Tim Berners-Lee, who in in the same month that Cerf was talking to Wired, was quoted by The Guardian as urging us to forsake corporate control and take back our data from Google and Facebook.