Comment by hydeph
15 years ago
reminds me of this riff on privacy by Bruce Schneier from a few years back addressing the same notion that Schmidt is quoted here to believe
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_p...
15 years ago
reminds me of this riff on privacy by Bruce Schneier from a few years back addressing the same notion that Schmidt is quoted here to believe
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_p...
Privacy protects from abusive power, and privacy protects from irrational judgment: true but incomplete. Privacy allows us to tolerate these problems - rather than being forced to confront them. That may not be a good thing.
Society is full of things we compartmentalize, minimize and tolerate.
Mostly, because we don't know how to confront them. I certainly don't know how to patch human nature so that power doesn't corrupt. So, in the meantime, I'll take privacy, thanks.