Jeff Jarvis is right, except he shouldn't be so confused about why he's right. There have been proposals for intermediated privacy settings controlled by users

Jeff Jarvis is right, except he shouldn't be so confused about why he's right. There have been proposals for intermediated privacy settings controlled by users since the early 2000's (at least). The problem is that commercial websites never wanted to put that control in the user's hands. Now Facebook "releases" what is essentially a siphon on your online activity, and the tech press lauds it as some kind of innovation. Some days it seems like everywhere I turn, I see people doing the exact opposite of what is good for them. It's really bizarre.