I don't think it needs to be viewed as "personal-data pornography," or "exhibitionism," or "privacy-kamikaze," but rather as a radical "reductio ad absurdum."
I truly believe "Internet Privacy" is an oxymoron. Therefore, any and all attempts to "protect it" are doomed from the start. It's just like "copyright" in the movie industry. Why not reverse the argument and make "privacy" irrelevant, with zero economic value? Since the wheels of industry are financial, industry will fail to profit from it. Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <a...@acm.org> +1 (817) 271-9619 On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Alfonso De Gregorio <a...@crypto.lo.gy> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:24 PM, ale fernandez <sko...@gmail.com> wrote: >> With all this talk of how snooping agencies and companies are trading >> people's data, wouldn't a citizen aggregated and voluntary free / creative >> commons database or similar be of value - perhaps at least as a way of >> reducing the value of all these data mining companies? >> >> Ale > > Such self-exposure may sounds kind of personal-data pornography -- and > somebody might argue that it wouldn't be so different than disclosing > our life to a random peer on a social media site. > > More seriously, if we believe there is value in privacy, we shouldn't > erode our own privacy as modern privacy-kamikaze just to destroy > personal information market value. Let's play to win! > > Of course, a large number of individuals, who genuinely would like to > protect their privacy, will not do so because of cognitive biases well > documented in behavioral economics and decision research [1]. > > Cheers, > Alfonso > > [1] Acquisti A., John L., Loewenstein G., "What is privacy worth?", > Future of Privacy Forum, > http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/papers/acquisti-ISR-worth.pdf > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
