In a recent talk at Computer History Museum, Michal Kosinski [0] referred to a 'post privacy world'. This is a world in which bits of data about each of us are

In a recent talk at Computer History Museum, Michal Kosinski [0] referred to a 'post privacy world'. This is a world in which bits of data about each of us are made available, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally, through our online activities. The most jarring revelation was that algorithms can determine your political preferences, with high accuracy, based on your public Facebook likes, and, neural nets could determine your sexual preference from a photo of your face with 90%+ accuracy. Therefore, it seems likely that many personality traits can be hinted or directly exposed from the information we share about ourselves. Who uses illegal drugs? Who cheats on their taxes? Who has committed murder? Snooping on our computers via Geek Squad, or via our local auto repair shop, or via 'private' communication like the NSA did is in some ways simply accelerating the inevitable. The discourse should be about the inevitable Post Privacy World. It's not one I want to live in, but which I am inadvertently diving into. For example, by commenting on Hacker News. [0] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/michal-kosinski https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/michal...