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May. 25 2009 - 8:37 pm | 2 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Shirking privacy

By KASHMIR HILL
Peace Monument

Privacy predicated on people choosing not to look is privacy imperiled.

The New York Times Room for Debate blog has a great round-up of experts talking about social networking tools and the public/private divide. One of the experts, Clay Shirky of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at N.Y.U., defines privacy in these Not-So Private Times as being dependent on people choosing not to look.

Privacy used to be enforced by inconvenience; you couldn’t just spy on anyone you wanted. Increasingly, though, privacy will have to be enforced by us grownups simply choosing not to look, since it’s none of our business.

via One Tweet Over the Line – Room for Debate Blog – NYTimes.com.

If the “new privacy” truly requires people to resist the rubberneck-look-at-the-car-accident impulse, privacy is in serious trouble!

But I did name this page the Not-So Private Parts, so it’s safe to say that I already knew that.

 
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