Comment by bostik

We've come a long way in some aspects, while staying pretty much in place in others.

I taught infosec 101 course at a university ~20 years ago. (Twice.) On the topic of privacy I used an example of harvesting data on peoples' habits, movements and behaviours and then said that as a society we use two different terms for the same thing. "When an individual does this, it's called stalking. When a company does this, it's called data mining."

The economics department students, many of who already knew they would want to work in marketing, were quite offended.