Have We Lost The Privacy War? 2
March 15th, 2010 by ComputerBob
Personal privacy used to be something that everyone took for granted, and it was assumed that you had a right to it unless you intentionally did something to give it away.
But for the past several years, personal privacy has increasingly become something that nearly everyone assumes DOESN’T exist any more — thanks in part to self-serving, self-fulfilling prophecies from companies like Google, who make hundreds of billions of dollars from exploiting our private data.
The result is that now, many people assume that you have NO right to personal privacy, unless you intentionally take steps to try to protect it.
And not only are many people eager to trade their personal privacy and data security for a little bit of convenience, they’re actually angry at you if you aren’t willing to do it, and will ridicule you for being a tinfoil-hat-wearing privacy nut or someone who must have something to hide.
It both saddens and angers me to see our right to personal privacy being constantly and insidiously replaced by corporations’ (i.e., Google’s) right to data mine our private data.
What do you think?
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