It just struck me while reading this and I'm probably just reiterating something that was better put by somebody smarter than me, but: The correct response to

It just struck me while reading this and I'm probably just reiterating something that was better put by somebody smarter than me, but: The correct response to "Why do you care so much about privacy? Do you have something to hide?" is: "From whom?". If you define privacy from the wrong end, you end up with the wrong conclusions. The important question isn't "What do you feel comfortable sharing?", but "How come so many parties have curious interests in what I'm sharing?". Of course, if you are google, phrasing the question as "think about what you want to share" makes it so that in answering the question, people basically follow a path that is profitable to you. With that, they focus your suspicions on the wrong end of the conundrum. Yes of course, you should be careful about what you do anywhere in public and yes of course people have lessons to learn with the internet. But it's not as if humans are completely removed from the basic concept. In Medieval Times, people didn't run naked across the market thinking nobody would see them. Treating people as though the most important thing was to educate them about not posting naked pictures of themselves online (or whatever makes a better example for "you shouldn't be doing it in the first place") means infantilising them. No. The question is: Who is so curious about what I do online. Cui bono!? Google most definitely profits from hyperfocussing people on themselves. Just like websites do SEO to present themselves in their best way to the search engines, we now want humans who make themselves presentable, easy to index entries in the databases of our society.