By Karthik Talwar and Anirban Sen ﻿, an American computer programmer regarded as one of the foremost authorities in the world on the JavaScript programming language, has been an outspoken critic on issues such as online privacy and a vocal proponent of the open source movement.In a freewheeling chat with ET's Karthik Talwar and Anirban Sen, Crockford who is Senior JavaScript Architect at PayPal spoke about how while Google has "provided enormous benefits to society", Crockford feels that the internet giant has also taken away the rights of users to remain anonymous.Edited excerpts:There are some things about it that I like a lot. Google has provided enormous benefits to the society, but there are also enormous risks with it. All of our devices spew so much metadata now that it's all swept up and correlated.I think it is impossible for you to have two identities on the same internet. And I think it is terrible. There are good reasons why people should maintain separate identities and we have thrown it away. Our grandchildren are going to be extremely annoyed with us.I would like to see things remain neutral, remain open. The best thing about the internet and the web is that they are open systems, anybody can play. That is constantly a threat because there are all these companies trying to figure out.The web is so crappy that we can obviously do it better, let's figure out a way to capture the web, replace it with a proprietary system.And so far all the attempts to do that has failed, and hoping that they continue to fail. But, there is no guarantee.I think probably it is a lost cause. You're stuck with it and the consequences of it. I mean having such identifiers means that everything you do is trivially correlated with everything else and everyone you know. What it's going to mean, we haven't seen all the implications over here.The difficulty is that it is a binary question. It's either fully encrypted or not. I like that Apple took the principal stand saying, 'No we are not going to do that'. But what I don't like is that they have provided so many unintentional backdoors that makes their stand irrelevant.So even when we think we are doing the right thing, it's clear we are not doing it yet. Governments keep demanding backdoors that they should be satisfied with all the unintentional backdoors that the software developers have provided them.We didn't anticipate that the programs will have to have this level of perfection in order to have any utility, and it is really hard writing stuff which is perfect for human beings. That motivated research in AI; we need to figure a way out for machines to write their own programs because humans aren't very good at doing that.