Re: online privacy (again)
Posted by
Douglas Roberts-2 on
Apr 02, 2012; 4:01pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/online-privacy-again-tp7429773p7429821.html
Some forms of ignorance and/or stupidity are worthy, nay,
richly deserving of contempt. And disparagement. We have, IMO, a societal obligation to push back against stupidity, and arrogance, and studied ignorance.
But not on this topic. Times are a changin'. Personal privacy no longer exists if you use internet technologies to communicate, or browse for information, or to share pictures of your kitties. Or look up bomb recipes. If you're going to do something online that could come back to bite you, you'd better become a top-notch expert on anonymizing technologies and methodology and practices.
Get used to it, it is the way it is.
--Doug
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Nicholas Thompson
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Hi, everybody,
Did you see this odd, avuncular op-ed from the Federal Trade Commission?
I don’t know whether it reassured me more than it scared the living bejeesus out of me. “Big-Brother’s Big Brother is looking out for you.”
I take it back about contempt: If one of you would like to write me an email, right now, which begins, “Nick, you miserable, feckless, idiot: go immediately to your browser properties, google profile, registry, WHATEVER, and do the following N things. And tell everybody in your family to do the same.” , I would give you a totally free pass on the contempt thing. And be grateful for it.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org
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