Privacy

[foms]

This constitutes the beginning of my expressing how I feel about privacy. It started as rough notes and ranting and it is not finished. Much of it remains unformed and disjoint. However, a couple of people have brought up privacy issues recently and I thought that I’d just post it. Here goes

Comments

[kmfda]

I think you hit several nails on the head with this. I'm envisioning it, printed up and nicely framed, as the new "Desiderata" in smart homes and work spaces.

[finalcut999]

Im definetly with you on this one.

[kestenbaum]

I hate spam as much as anybody, probably more than most because of the quantity I get. And most spam is not just business, but outright fraud: phishing, banking scams, quack medicine, etc.

But whoever sends me, say, the dozens of Korean-language spam I get every day, has no idea who I am. Presumably copies go out to millions of people utterly unknown to the sender. It's more analogous to someone polluting the river I drink from, or spreading litter on the street I walk on, than to someone spying on my bedroom or listening in on my telephone calls.

In other words, I don't see spamming as a privacy issue.

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[polywolf]

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