Cannataci read Cerf&#x27;s full quote:<p>&gt; Privacy may actually be an anomaly. Privacy is a construct of the modern industrial age. In the past, everyone lived in small, self-contained communities where everyone knew who was dating the baker&#x27;s daughter and what the sheriff had for lunch. It is only when populations started migrating en mass to cities that anonymity emerged as a by-product of urbanization.<p>&gt;This, Cannataci said, was &quot;pure, undiluted rubbish,&quot; adding: &quot;I cannot understand how a person of the intelligence of Vint Cerf could say anything so dumb. It&#x27;s just dumb.&quot;<p>I just finished rereading What You Can&#x27;t Say. Maybe &quot;privacy is dead&quot; is the modern taboo?