Kashmir Hill writes: One of the big issues at the heart of the privacy debate is data aggregation and how companies profit from it. In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, fifth grader Jenna elegantly described what bothered her about advertisers tracking her online activity, “I don’t like everyone knowing what I’m doing…
Category: Misc
Do we have to “trade off” privacy?
Doc Searls writes: Look up privacy trade-offs on Google and you get more than 150,000,ooo results. The assumption almost always is that privacy is something one can trade away. Many also assume that privacy trading is with marketers and advertisers, which are often in cahoots with social media such as Twitter, FourSquare and Blippy. I don’t think this…
We Need to Reclaim Our Private Spaces
Sherry Turkle, a professor of the social studies of science at MIT, writes: These days we live a life that generates its own electronic shadow. Over time, most people find a way to ignore or deny it. And over time, particularly for those who have grown up in our new regime of surveillance, leaving an…
Recommended: The politics of privacy
Christopher Wolf, founder of the Future of Privacy Forum and an attorney with Hogan Lovells, comments about recent political conflicts over privacy protection involving Israel and then takes it to a broader level. He writes: International cooperation to promote privacy, which is essential in our information society, used to be fairly immune to politics. Clearly,…