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I disagree. There's a pretty clear trend of people actively making more of their private life public. The people 'destroying privacy' are the general populatio

by axod 16y ago

I disagree. There's a pretty clear trend of people actively making more of their private life public. The people 'destroying privacy' are the general population posting the minute details of their life on the internet for all to see. They want to. The FUD I've seen has been from the other side. "They harvest your personal details and then sell them". That's just idiotic. Why should I care if a company collects some data on me and sells it? (As long as it was collected via legal means). Them selling information on me doesn't affect me in any way.

Herring 16y ago
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/01/16/facebooks_move.html http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/01/16/faceboo... >Privacy isn't a technological binary that you turn off and on. Privacy is about having control of a situation. It's about controlling what information flows where and adjusting measures of trust when things flow in unexpected ways. It's about creating certainty so that we can act appropriately. People still care about privacy because they care about control. Sure, many teens repeatedly tell me "public by default, private when necessary" but this doesn't suggest that privacy is declining; it suggests that publicity has value and, more importantly, that folks are very conscious about when something is private and want it to remain so. When the default is private, you have to think about making something public. When the default is public, you become very aware of privacy. And thus, I would suspect, people are more conscious of privacy now than ever. Because not everyone wants to share everything to everyone else all the time.
gvb 16y ago
The people 'destroying privacy' are the general population posting the minute details of their life on the internet for all to see. They want to. What really annoys me is when my family and friends post many of the minute details of my life on their pages (e.g. Facebook, twitter). Welcome to the wonderful world of "collateral damage." :-(

by axod 16y ago

Herring 16y ago

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/01/16/facebooks_move.html http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/01/16/faceboo... >Privacy isn't a technological binary that you turn off and on. Privacy is about having control of a situation. It's about controlling what information flows where and adjusting measures of trust when things flow in unexpected ways. It's about creating certainty so that we can act appropriately. People still care about privacy because they care about control. Sure, many teens repeatedly tell me "public by default, private when necessary" but this doesn't suggest that privacy is declining; it suggests that publicity has value and, more importantly, that folks are very conscious about when something is private and want it to remain so. When the default is private, you have to think about making something public. When the default is public, you become very aware of privacy. And thus, I would suspect, people are more conscious of privacy now than ever. Because not everyone wants to share everything to everyone else all the time.

gvb 16y ago

The people 'destroying privacy' are the general population posting the minute details of their life on the internet for all to see. They want to. What really annoys me is when my family and friends post many of the minute details of my life on their pages (e.g. Facebook, twitter). Welcome to the wonderful world of "collateral damage." :-(