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It's interesting, isn't it? Not very long ago, it was important to people to maintain certain kinds of privacy, a "healthy paranoia", a division between the liv
by thaumaturgy 15y ago
It's interesting, isn't it? Not very long ago, it was important to people to maintain certain kinds of privacy, a "healthy paranoia", a division between the lives they led at work and at home and elsewhere.
Now, there are a lot of people asking that same question: so what if an advertiser knows more about my habits than I do? So what if someone from work sees my vacation photos?
And, maybe, if everyone sort of agrees that all this is OK, then it really will be.
Some people are still clinging on to their healthy paranoia, though. I don't trust any company, large or small, not to harm me if it suits their bottom line -- even if I'm not imaginative enough to guess how they might do that.
- swombat 15y agoThat works just fine until a totalitarian government takes power. See my other comment for details...
- Symmetry 15y agoIsn't the fact that more people have more to lose in the event of totalitarianism sort of a good thing, in that it makes totalitarianism less likely?
- pavel_lishin 15y agoAre you certain that it makes totalitarianism less likely?
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- netcan 15y agoIn fact, maybe this separation between work "you," private "you" and other yous is a problem.
- shabda 15y agoAh, the Eric Shcmidt defence: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."