Privacy was clearly a major topic in 2013.  The ongoing conversations around the world subsequent to Snowden’s revelations have been extensive and on-going.  His recent comments to England on Christmas Day and the recent interview in the Washington Post provoked a lot of commentary at the end of the year.

The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford just called 2013  “The Year of Privacy”.  As the author mentioned in this column, dictionary.com named “privacy the word of the year”. In addition, Safegov.org published a column about  “The Year in Privacy 2013 and …