Yes. I do. I care to keep everything private that I reasonably can. Or rather, I care to be in complete control of what information I release. I decided to use

Yes. I do. I care to keep everything private that I reasonably can. Or rather, I care to be in complete control of what information I release. I decided to use my real name as my screen name. I do so on most sites. If however, I made my screen name aawfafwef but YCombinator was for some weird legal reason required to know my full name, I would not expect to show up on the site identified as Daniel Straight. Any information I provide about which I am not explicitly notified of its publicness I feel should be kept private. I was dissuaded further from trying Mint when I saw that they released aggregated information on customer spending. Even aggregated, they are taking their customers' private banking data and making it available to the public. I don't care if it can't be traced back to the individual. It was a still, in my mind, a breach of privacy. Recent tech history has shown us how un-anonymous anonymized data is. You only have to follow Hacker News or Schneier on Security to know just how often such issues come up. Security and privacy by obscurity are never, NEVER enough. Period.