Ultimately, we'll probably have to adjust our culture to the fact that the combination of technology and capitalism sooner or later leads to the end of privacy. It's going to be a long, difficult and certainly painful path and there will be victims. But if the current trend continues, there will be a time where everybody will be able to know almost anything about anybody, anytime.
Edit: And if we really have a problem with this, we better start our engines.
It doesn't have to mean that. Think of war. Defense is often developed in response to offense. Medicine is developed in response to injury. Sometimes in history, defense & medicine lag far behind weapons. Sometimes the gap is much smaller.
Privacy is impacted because we are rushing ahead, advancing our sharing & social & etc technologies. We aren't developing privacy & security fast enough to keep pace. So while it is that way right now, must it be?
The problem is that sharing and social technologies attract more resources than privacy technologies because it's easier to make money when you know as much as possible about your users.
If that's truly what the implication of mixing technology and capitalism is, I'd much rather have my privacy.
Even if you don't care about privacy, enabling people who don't have the decency to respect the rights of others is a very slippery slope; it could expand to more things very quickly.
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Ultimately, we'll probably have to adjust our culture to the fact that the combination of technology and capitalism sooner or later leads to the end of privacy. It's going to be a long, difficult and certainly painful path and there will be victims. But if the current trend continues, there will be a time where everybody will be able to know almost anything about anybody, anytime.
Edit: And if we really have a problem with this, we better start our engines.
It doesn't have to mean that. Think of war. Defense is often developed in response to offense. Medicine is developed in response to injury. Sometimes in history, defense & medicine lag far behind weapons. Sometimes the gap is much smaller.
Privacy is impacted because we are rushing ahead, advancing our sharing & social & etc technologies. We aren't developing privacy & security fast enough to keep pace. So while it is that way right now, must it be?
The problem is that sharing and social technologies attract more resources than privacy technologies because it's easier to make money when you know as much as possible about your users.
If that's truly what the implication of mixing technology and capitalism is, I'd much rather have my privacy. Even if you don't care about privacy, enabling people who don't have the decency to respect the rights of others is a very slippery slope; it could expand to more things very quickly.