For the record, I’m a noted privacy freak and I don’t pretend to speak for anyone else on this topic. I know that resistance is futile. I continue to believe that there is a great divide on sensitivity about privacy—you’ve either had your identity stolen or been stalked or had some great intrusion you couldn’t fend off, or you haven’t. I’m in the former camp and it colors the way I view and think about privacy online. It makes me indescribably sad to see how clearly I and others in my camp are losing this battle.
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That's kind of unfair. We're all rational human beings and we're capable of assessing the situation logically whether we've been victimized or not. If anything, someone who's been victimized will likely have an emotional response and overreact.
Also, claiming everyone who's been victimized becomes a privacy zealot is just not true. Hell, I got a heavy breathing prank call just yesterday (no joke) and laughed it off as a prank. Whatever.
Mike Malone - 13th May 2009 18:48 - #