As younger and younger generations continue to give away their
data and musings online, there is a real and present danger of
their virtual identity usurping their actual identity in a
damaging way. This was the warning put to the audience at
Google's Big Tent event by executive chairman Eric Schmidt and
Jared Cohen of Google Ideas.  "As you age, more and more of your
digital identity is determined by others and that indelible
record is something new generations will live with for the rest
of their lives," said Schmidt, while Cohen, clearly irked by an
ongoing trend for parents posting sonograms of their helpless
infant online before they've had the opportunity to burp a
consent, warned that this is already happening now among
children.   "Kids are coming online and saying things that will
follow them round for rest of lives," said Cohen, "faster than
the physical maturation process. Parents should talk to them
about privacy years before the birds and the bees. Somewhere
like Saudi Arabia this is even more im