"... My generation has long been bizarrely comfortable with being looked at, and as performers on the Facebook stage, we upload pictures of ourselves cooking di

"... My generation has long been bizarrely comfortable with being looked at, and as performers on the Facebook stage, we upload pictures of ourselves cooking dinner for our parents or doing keg stands at last night's party; we are reckless with our personal information. But there is one area of privacy that we won't surrender: the secrecy of how and whom we search. ..." I listened to a sobering talk by "Eben Moglen, 'Freedom Businesses Protect Privacy', mp3, 18Mb, 40min" ~ http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1897.html http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1897.html about just this scenario about data and the rights to infer, think, collect, evaluate and express. The key takeaway, these users are living with giving away their data without contractual agreements and are ignoring the consequences. The biggest threat to privacy is private company data miners who you freely give data. Inference drawn the data is private property. But it's not all doom and gloom but do you trust those who have bailment over you own data? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailment "... But there's no way Facebook would allow such a program to exist: the site is popular largely because it enables us to indulge our gazes anonymously. ..." That's not true. There is a Fb internal application that works out the probability of 2 people who will go out together based on Fb data. So don't bet on it.