privacy Privacy matters, even if you "have nothing to hide" Data retention laws passed the Austrian government a few weeks back. Its advocates, like everywhere else, like to stress that data retention isn’t a bad thing, because, well, if you’ve got nothing to hide, why should you care? The Chronicle has a
API Google's Social Graph API and privacy In light of recent discussions, especially the ones at the latest BarCamp, on Anaj’s blog or in Christian’s posting on 123people.com , I think these quotes from a Compiler entry on Google’s new Social Graph API are interesting: There is also
1984 I'm visible In 1984, Orwell elaborately worked on the notion that in the future an entity comparable to a government would be in total control of people, in the course of which luxuries like privacy would be gone forever. Neil Postman later postulated that Orwell’s