Re: Why privacy is important? Looking for essays/opinion pieces
Taylor: Please check http://www.mcg.org.br/faust.htm and http://www.mcg.org.br/nrfc3.htm (this one to be updated on Monday, April 5th) Cheers, Ed Gerck M Taylor wrote: > I am looking for letters, essays, op-ed, or other writings which explain > why privacy is important on the Internet. Most resources seem to simply > assume that privacy is important, without asking or explaining why. > > In my limited experience of dealing with administrators, they question why > they should worry about privacy of other people's personal information, > citing the general rise in data warehousing and the old saying "if you've > got nothing to hide..." > > So I'm looking for pieces which examine why we should consider our privacy > valuable.
Re: Why privacy is important? Looking for essays/opinion pieces
M Taylor wrote: > In my limited experience of dealing with administrators, they question why > they should worry about privacy of other people's personal information, > citing the general rise in data warehousing and the old saying "if you've > got nothing to hide..." > > So I'm looking for pieces which examine why we should consider our privacy > valuable. Check out my web page. This is an old debate and I have a number of papers there on the topic or related ones. The summary answer is that innocent people have much to hide from netizens, whether they be crooks, stalkers, crazies or just data miners. Therefore, the "if you have nothing to hide..." is a false premise and you can prove anything you want from the right false premise. - Carl -- Carl M. Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~cme PGP: E0414C79B5AF36750217BC1A57386478 & 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 ``Officer, officer, arrest that man! He's whistling a dirty song.'' [Jean Ellison]
Why privacy is important? Looking for essays/opinion pieces
I am looking for letters, essays, op-ed, or other writings which explain why privacy is important on the Internet. Most resources seem to simply assume that privacy is important, without asking or explaining why. In my limited experience of dealing with administrators, they question why they should worry about privacy of other people's personal information, citing the general rise in data warehousing and the old saying "if you've got nothing to hide..." So I'm looking for pieces which examine why we should consider our privacy valuable.
