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Babies of 2014: Questions from crib to college

Here is a list of select questions that babies born in 2014 will ask their parents as they grow up, courtesy of the Beloit College Mindset Lists.

9. Privacy

Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras/The Guardian/AP
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, says his "mission's already accomplished" after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies. This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong on June 9.

  • By Lane Brown

"Why is that old guy Edward Snowden living on a boat in the middle of the ocean?"

Today, digital interactions such as online chats, phone conversations, and video conferences are all susceptible to being monitored for the sake of stamping out nefarious content in the interest of national security. Or so we are told. We expect that the babies born in 2014 will have little to no digital privacy, at least not in the way we define it today. 

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