People don’t value their privacy enough and should be working more to safeguard it, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency said over the weekend.
“Privacy should never be dead,” CIA Director John Brennan said on CBS’ “60 minutes” on Sunday. “It’s interesting that people always point to the government or others in terms of the invasion of privacy.”
“Individuals are liberally giving up their privacy, you know, sometimes wittingly and sometimes unwittingly as they give information to companies or to sales reps,” Brennan said. “Or they go out on Facebook or the various social media. They don’t realize, though, that they are then making themselves vulnerable to exploitation.”
He pointed to a breach of his personal email account by a teen hacker as an example, saying it illustrates the fact no one is safe. “There are ways that individuals can get into the personal emails of anybody,” Brennan said.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and British police arrested a 16-year-old United Kingdom teen last week for the alleged breach of Brennan’s personal AOL account last year. In addition to that hack, the teen purportedly hacked the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and several other national security officials.
