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It comes down to a question of whether kids are careless about privacy or whether they don't care about privacy. We'll take my great-grandfather for an example
by rprospero 13y ago
It comes down to a question of whether kids are careless about privacy or whether they don't care about privacy.
We'll take my great-grandfather for an example. He'd be horrified about how careless I've been about protecting our racial purity. How could I be so careless as to marry a women without realizing that she's not only a dirty papist, but also one of those swarthy French‽
However, the truth was not that I was careless, but that I didn't care. I know all of these things, but they didn't matter to me. Similarly, I know someone who broke federal privacy laws with respect to my personal information. I could report this individual, but the simple fact is that I don't care. If he'd posted the entire data set to wikileaks, I still wouldn't care. It's not that I have nothing to hide - there's some pretty embarrassing stuff in that data set. However, everything in that data set, good or bad, is true.
- nitrogen 13y agoThe only way I could see privacy not mattering in the future is if knowledge stops being equivalent to power. Even if everyone knows everything about everyone, I don't see that knowledge ceasing to be useful for manipulation. The important question to me, then, isn't whether the embarrassing (or mundane) secrets are true, but whether they would give someone the power to manipulate the subject of those secrets, or to manipulate others with respect to the subject of the secrets.