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Mr Kaspersky said that there were two future scenarios regarding the use of social media – either 100 per cent freedom to use such networks which was dangerous, or Big Brother style controls which were at least safe.
“I’m afraid I have no scenario in between,” he said.

While other issues such as privacy and cybercrime were of concern to many people using the internet, these were less of a threat in the future he said. Although cybercrime cost society the equivalent of three Japanese tsunamis a year in terms of lost or compromised revenue, governments were becoming more active in addressing the problem. Ukraine was possibly the last refuge for cybercriminals on the planet he said.

As to privacy, Mr Kaspersky acknowledged that there was a place for government to introduce regulation to govern what data can and cannot be collected about their citizens, but in general he warned that “there is no privacy in this world.”

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Beverley Head is a Sydney-based freelance writer who specialises in exploring how and why technology changes everything - society, business, government, education, health. Beverley started writing about the business of technology in London in 1983 before moving to Australia in 1986. She was the technology editor of the Financial Review for almost a decade, and then became the newspaper's features editor before embarking on a freelance career, during which time she has written on a broad array of technology related topics for the Sydney Morning Herald, Age, Boss, BRW, Banking Day, Campus Review, Education Review, Insite and Government Technology Review. Beverley holds a degree in Metallurgy and the Science of Materials from Oxford University and a deep affection for things which are shaken not stirred.

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