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I would suggest that most people who think someone is going to spend their time doing this to get over themselves. If you are notable, intensely rich, or some

I would suggest that most people who think someone is going to spend their time doing this to get over themselves. If you are notable, intensely rich, or some other special person...

IntronExon 9y ago
Maybe in the future you will be one of those things, and your data will still be waiting for you. Unless you’re special enough to see into the future I guess.
- emodendroket 9y ago
  Yeah, or you just piss off (or just attract the attention of) the wrong person or group. I can't imagine Ken Bone envisioned someone combing through his entire Reddit history or Justine Sacco imagined her joke would lead to people tracking down her employer and getting her essentially blackballed from her profession. And that's just nobodies working with only public information.
craftyguy 9y ago
> I would suggest that most people who think someone is going to spend their time doing this to get over themselves. No person is going to personally do that. We have computers and increasingly more advanced 'learning' algorithms to do that for us, and to help us draw conclusions (correct or not) about the person of interest.
- JoshMnem 9y ago
  I agree that large-scale machine learning is a bigger risk, but there are people who personally creep around in others' personal data.[1] Also, it doesn't need to be just a few people looking at your private data. One early worst-case example is Ashley Madison[2], but it's going to increasingly be a problem for society in the upcoming years, especially with the expansion of technologies like face recognition, voiceprinting, license plate cameras, etc. [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8003925/Google-engineer-fired-for-privacy-breach-after-stalking-and-harrassing-teenagers.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8003925/Google-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach

I would suggest that most people who think someone is going to spend their time doing this to get over themselves. If you are notable, intensely rich, or some other special person...

IntronExon 9y ago

Maybe in the future you will be one of those things, and your data will still be waiting for you. Unless you’re special enough to see into the future I guess.

emodendroket 9y ago
Yeah, or you just piss off (or just attract the attention of) the wrong person or group. I can't imagine Ken Bone envisioned someone combing through his entire Reddit history or Justine Sacco imagined her joke would lead to people tracking down her employer and getting her essentially blackballed from her profession. And that's just nobodies working with only public information.

craftyguy 9y ago

> I would suggest that most people who think someone is going to spend their time doing this to get over themselves. No person is going to personally do that. We have computers and increasingly more advanced 'learning' algorithms to do that for us, and to help us draw conclusions (correct or not) about the person of interest.

JoshMnem 9y ago
I agree that large-scale machine learning is a bigger risk, but there are people who personally creep around in others' personal data.[1] Also, it doesn't need to be just a few people looking at your private data. One early worst-case example is Ashley Madison[2], but it's going to increasingly be a problem for society in the upcoming years, especially with the expansion of technologies like face recognition, voiceprinting, license plate cameras, etc. [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8003925/Google-engineer-fired-for-privacy-breach-after-stalking-and-harrassing-teenagers.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8003925/Google-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach