Sunday, August 31, 2008
Information Age - WSJ.com
Here's an interesting article about our perceptions of privacy and the reality of today's real world...
This is from L. Gordon Crovitz in the Wall Street Journal:
"We seem to be following the advice of Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems, who in 1999 said, "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." And the observation by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison: 'The privacy you're concerned about is largely an illusion. All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy.'
These comments could be dismissed as technology executives trying to minimize complaints about technology. But whatever we say about how much we value privacy, a close look at our actual behavior suggests we have gotten over it. A recent study by AOL of privacy in Britain found that 84% of people said they would not disclose details about their income online, but in fact 89% of them willingly did."
