Historically, privacy is a pretty recent invention- I'd say an aberration. Nobody had privacy living in a small tribe or village. So now corporations can track my web usage, see what I like, and spam me - so what? From the tone of this article, anyone would think the end of the world was nigh. We don't need privacy, which is just as well since it's becoming more or less impossible. What we do need is reciprocal transparency - we need to know what corporations, governments, and the Men In Black are up to. We need more Freedom of Information laws, not more privacy laws. Get out there and videotape someone important. And for a more interesting view on privacy, check out David Brin's The Transparent Society - worth a million Katz articles.
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Historically, privacy is a pretty recent invention- I'd say an aberration. Nobody had privacy living in a small tribe or village. So now corporations can track my web usage, see what I like, and spam me - so what? From the tone of this article, anyone would think the end of the world was nigh. We don't need privacy, which is just as well since it's becoming more or less impossible. What we do need is reciprocal transparency - we need to know what corporations, governments, and the Men In Black are up to. We need more Freedom of Information laws, not more privacy laws. Get out there and videotape someone important. And for a more interesting view on privacy, check out David Brin's The Transparent Society - worth a million Katz articles.