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September 08, 2006
Rethinking privacy
Rethinking privacy: Andy Baio has an excellent overview here of recent situations where people have put fake sex ads on Craigslist, and then published the responses they received. We have an expectation or privacy, sure, and you can bring legal action against deep-pocketed targets like governments or corporations, but what do you do when you trust some schlub off the net, and they betray your expectations? We're less excited about omnipresent camphones than two years ago, but we still don't have good social structures for handling situations where others publish what you thought was a one-time visual situation (see "dog poop girl"). George Orwell thought that computer abuse would be centralized, but it's actually turning out to be a decentralized threat. Thanks to Andy for bringing together and highlighting the issues like this.
Posted by JohnDowdell at September 8, 2006 10:20 AM
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