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Privacy is Expensive.
- wmf 16y agoI wish privacy was expensive, because then I could just pay for it and be done. What bothers me are services where you can't get privacy for any amount of money.
- thefool 16y agoThe whole thing with money is that its a way to mediate resource allocation. As you point out, as the internet gets more ubiquitous, and there gets to be more money on the internet, it is bound to end up looking more like the "real" world.
- dman 16y agoFunny thing is that the real world has much more finer grained privacy controls. You can stash your magazines in a box, data is not very discoverable et al. In fact at the risk of being self promoting I have a blog post about privacy online and in the real world at http://www.bitcrumb.com/blog/2 http://www.bitcrumb.com/blog/2. By most metrics online privacy trails real world privacy in sophistication.
- ZachPruckowski 16y agoI remember when I joined Facebook, it was at least in part because it alleviated a lot of the MySpace privacy concerns. It didn't share data with outside companies, and only people with a UVA email address or who I accepted their friend request could see anything beyond my name, school, and photo. If I had known they would eventually be sharing my data such that CNN.com gets it if I just surf there or that it would publish my online shopping habits if I didn't opt-out (thankfully a rescinded policy), I'd have been more hesitant to sign up.
- koanarc 16y agoYou know, I had forgotten about this until reading your comment, but a major (if not the only) factor in my initial decision to create a Facebook account was the fact that it was limited to college campuses, and that I could be sure that only other people at my university would have any interaction with my profile. The first couple of weeks on FB were exciting -- all these new people, and they're right here at my school! The next few months were useful -- all these people that I know, I can get to know better! And now? My account has been deleted with prejudice, and I pray to Huitzilopochtli that their datacenters all catch on fire.
- hipsterelitist 16y agoEverything is expensive when you consider 'money left on the table.' Privacy is not any more expensive than building a service to expose that data outsiders for pay.
- city41 16y agoThe real issue, at least to me, is how shady Facebook is being about the whole thing. They are trying really hard to expose people's data without the average user realizing it. But truth be told, I've also found the average user doesn't really care once you tell them what is going on.
- naner 16y agoIf Facebook allowed me to pay a subscription fee to keep my data and usage statistics private, I would do so. If I could trust them to keep that promise.