A funny little detail I just noticed about this article as I was reading it is that cannot be bookmarked from my normal view of the article in Chrome, even thou

A funny little detail I just noticed about this article as I was reading it is that cannot be bookmarked from my normal view of the article in Chrome, even though all of the other dozen tabs I have open just now can be bookmarked. When I viewed the source code on the page, I was able to bookmark that, and I will definitely be coming back to this article in the future. (I have already shared it among my Facebook friends.) The comments here are interesting, as the last time this issue came up on Hacker News, I was reading more anecdotes about public data searches on individuals that mostly turn up junk data (which has been my experience). Way back in the 1980s, I attended a presentation at a law firm where I then worked and was told that with simply a former telephone number, all kinds of interesting information could be found about a person. So I gave the company representative one of my previous phone numbers from childhood, and he found next to nothing about me, and some of what was found was erroneous. I was not impressed. By the 1990s, I had a lot of online presence, and when AltaVista was still the dominant search engine a friend of mine in another city (we had met in Taiwan) began using my name as a search term in training his colleagues in how to do online searching, as a search on my name reliably turned up a lot of hits. Google finds plenty of information about me, of course, and has become better and better at sorting the most useful information about me to the top of the search results over the years. I am aware that cyberstalkers, like point-of-view pushers who have tried to drive me away from Wikipedia editing, can go from my Wikipedia screen name (unique to Wikipedia) to find out other information about me, including telephone numbers. But I'm still on Wikipedia after they have been banned, so all's well that ends well. The harassing phone call trick to suppress my free expression of fact and opinion on online forums was tried as long ago as 1993, so I'm used to it. Most of the emails that come to me off-forum about my Hacker News comments address me by name, so it's not a hard research problem to link my Hacker News screen name to my real name. (A harder problem is distinguishing me from the subsequent people who began using my screen name here after I first used it on another forum, beginning in 2004.) Yeah, foolproof privacy is difficult to achieve. I usually don't go snooping, and for the most part I have no idea who I am talking to here on HN. I figure that the old days of living in a village with a small group of people who were mostly all extended family relatives probably didn't offer much privacy either, so I'm not particularly worried about the modern world, but I wonder how much more Privacy by Design http://www.privacybydesign.ca/ http://www.privacybydesign.ca/ concepts can catch on in everyday practice in most industries for more of what we each do in daily life. If you would like to comment about this, I won't try to figure out who you are away from HN.