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I fall into (3) but not for the reason you mentioned. "Privacy" is largely an industrial age phenomenon and practically speaking we can never go back. I think w
by flatline 7y ago
I fall into (3) but not for the reason you mentioned. "Privacy" is largely an industrial age phenomenon and practically speaking we can never go back. I think we need new constructs to talk productively about issues like this and the research in this area hasn't even really started to take shape yet. We are only beginning to understand the implications of social graphs, information security, data as a product - let alone critically analyzing their intersection and having informed discussions thereabout.
- joaobeno 7y agoPrivacy is not a Industrial Age stuff... I could be private in Rome, just as I'm now, just a random dude working... A small cog, no one gets to know me, no on cares to gossip about me... Be it now, be it on Renascence in Venice, be it on Rome just before the senators kill Caesar, be it on Luoyang as the tensions rose between the Warring States... At any point in time, I could have a private conversation, write and hide a document, like some stuff that was socially unacceptable and keep it a secret, meet someone in secret, and, in general, lead a private life... Stop comparing urban life as if it is something modern... Of course it is much more prevalent now, as the ratio vs rural residents shifted, and sure, it is much harder to hide something on a small village of some dozens of people, or at a farm with a huge family, but in any major city of any era, you could be as hidden and private as today, if not more...
- lostlogin 7y agoPrivacy is not new and examples go back as far you you look. Curtains, doors, walls, envelopes, seals for envelopes. Some types and bits of clothing. Privacy is built into a awful lot of what people have done when you look for it.