Americans say they are deeply concerned about privacy on the web and their cellphones. They say they do not trust Internet companies or the government to protec

Americans say they are deeply concerned about privacy on the web and their cellphones. They say they do not trust Internet companies or the government to protect it. Yet they keep using the services and handing over their personal information. This is a convenient misunderstanding and refraiming of the privacy debate. Privacy is IN PART hiding, but privacy is also IN PART exercising the self control and granting the respect for others to not collect a dataum, even if they haven't made it outright infeasible to collect. Or for the more fishy situations, collecting dataum X for purpose Y (which the customer/user/exposed passerby likes), but refraining from using it for purpose Z (which they dislike). Corporate interests want us to forget the second half. If a person reasons like "I technically can, therefore nothing is wrong with doing so," that's a sign of possible psychopathy. I don't see why we should let it slide when someone's simply appends "because money."