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Possibly. Maybe, privacy is about being able to control what others you care about know about you. I wouldn't for example want Nazi Germany to know that I am J
by Andrew_Quentin 16y ago
Possibly. Maybe, privacy is about being able to control what others you care about know about you.
I wouldn't for example want Nazi Germany to know that I am Jewish. That of course is an example, I am neither in Nazi Germany nor Jewish. But I suppose if I were Jewish, I would not care that the Israeli government knows I am Jewish.
I do not care what Google knows about me. I do not care either that Google knows where I am. I too roughly know where most visitors to my website are. Indeed sometimes I know where they are precisely.
If google wants to offer a service to remind me to buy milk, I might use it. I do not think that machines are at such a level yet where they can control me and tell me what to do next. If it reminds me to buy milk I might or might not go and buy milk. Indeed, possibly having a little google robot to go and buy my milk would be the science fiction future.
If however google decides all the sudden to tell for example my employer that I have said that I hate them, that is an invasion of privacy. As it would be if they told my girlfriend I slept with someone, or if they told my friend I lied to them. Now that would be the fiction future, or possibly the non fiction past of 1984.
- rue 16y agoPoint being, you should be free to not care. I should be free to care.
- prodigal_erik 16y ago> I wouldn't for example want Nazi Germany to know that I am Jewish. Then you can't afford to let the Weimar Republic gather records saying you're Jewish, not because they're untrustworthy but because collating pre-existing data (gee, thanks, IBM) is where the Nazis got their lists.