The Online Privacy Anomaly

Social Media•on November 30th, 2008•2 Comments

“For most of human history, people have lived in small tribes where everything they did was known by everyone they knew,” Dr. Malone said. “In some sense we’re becoming a global village. Privacy may turn out to have become an anomaly.”

(Quote from New York Times article, You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?)

Turns out folks that online privacy may turn out to be (or is) viewed as an anomaly. Reading the NY Times article reminds me of a podcast on the topic featuring Eben Moglen speaking on “Freedom Businesses Protect Privacy” at the O’Reilly Media MySQL Conference in 2007. You can listen to the original podcast, published by IT Conversations, here. (Alternatively you can download the original podcast in MP3 format here)

2 Responses to “The Online Privacy Anomaly”

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    david says:
    November 30, 2008 at 1:43 am

    Scott McNealy (?) said back in the late 90s: “You have no privacy – get over it.”

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    Mark Mathson says:
    November 30, 2008 at 9:34 am

    Thanks David. When Scott made that statement I think it caused an awareness, but a brief controversy over his assumption that no one has any privacy, or a state thereof anyways.

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