The Privacy Myth

Jeremy Wagstaff, is a technology columnist, author and journalist, and writes for The Wall Street Journal and the BBC. He asks over at his Loose Wire blog whether we have overcome our concerns about privacy.

I can't speak for the younger generation, having been kicked out of it some years ago. But if we're talking more generally about folk who have embraced the Net in the past 10 years, I'd have to say I don't think it's that we don't care about privacy. We just don't understand it. In that sense nothing has changed. I think what is happening is the same as before: People don't really understand the privacy issues of what they're doing, because the technology, and its liberating sensuality, are moving faster than we can assimilate to our culture. (Jeremy Wagstaff)

J. Angelo Racoma analyses it in this post As The Media Becomes Social, Do We Really Still Care About Privacy? at BlogHerald.

Do we really care much about privacy? Most would probably consider privacy to be important. But I would agree with Jeremy Wagstaff that it’s because of the “liberating sensuality” of technology that many have preferred to go the easy way. (J. Angelo Racoma)