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• jerf 17y ago
  "I have the option to exert complete control over who gets to see my facebook profile, my tweets, and my buzz-es." To my understanding, those buttons aren't anywhere near as powerful as you may think; I'm pretty sure Facebook affiliates see right through them if you do much more than glance at an app. How many randomly-selected people will be able to correctly answer that question? Pointing out that there are parts of privacy that people do get ("Gosh, maybe I shouldn't make a post about how much fun my mistress and I had last night") doesn't negate the point that there's a huge chunk that they don't understand at all, and therefore we can't look at their actions as endorsement of the current way private information is being handled. (Both of you who have replied do not seem to be getting my point here. I'm not making the general purpose argument that "we should have privacy". I'm making the argument that we can't read people's apparent acceptance of the current privacy regime as real acceptance when they don't actually know what the current regime is. Which is why my post here focuses on the issue of what an average person understands is going on, rather than whether what is going on is intrinsically good or bad.)