It’s time for a global debate on how computing has forever changed the balance of power for people and governments.
!["As computers have become ever more powerful in sensing and processing, people have signed up in droves to provide an avalanche of personal data through networks they scarcely understand," writes Eric Garland [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013112104616542580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
It’s time for a global debate on how computing has forever changed the balance of power for people and governments.
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