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
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
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