Comment by taurath

The worst part to me is how little anyone seems to care about privacy - it just is how the world is. The US economy (or at least almost all e-marketing) seems to run on the idea that there's no such thing as privacy by default. Its not a subject that is talked about nearly enough. Everything is already known by uncle sam regardless. Its really strange, or maybe fortunate, that we're basically at a place that we often worried about but things haven't gone totally wrong yet. Corporate governance has been not that terrible (they know that its a golden goose they can't unkill). We'll see what happens in the next decade though - a company like google with so much data but losing marketshare might be tempted to be evil, or in todays parlance, have a feduciary responsibility to juice peoples data.