"You Can't Get Noticed In Private!"
I love movies! I have 250 DVDs in my collection, and know lines from all of them. One of my favorites is Primary Colors. In one of the my favorite scenes, John Travolta says, "I don't give a shit about privacy. I'm here to get known, and you can't get known in private." When I heard this, it got me thinking about chapter in the The Control Revolution about the marketing of privacy and how privacy of individuals is undermined by websites.
I found what Shapiro says about marketing of privacy interesting, especially about it creating a false sense of confidence. People believe that their information is being used for marketing when it actually leads to junk mail. I think we all fear identity theft like what occurred this past weekend. We can never be too careful about protecting our personal information. That is why people need to be away of the privacy protection they enlist, and what it can prevent. Unless you are Jack Stanton, care about privacy!
4 Comments:
I think you are right fellow Dem. Only thing is I'm not sure we're all still talking about privacy.
It seems to me that we may need new terminology for the internet.
For instance, no I don't to be a victim of identity theft, but cookies’ tracing my online actions doesn’t really bother me.
Likewise, I don't want someone stealing my pictures or term papers off my hard drive, but is that really privacy or are we talking about intellectual property rights???
Where does the internet fit into the scene? It is a mitigating or aggravating variable? Can it be both?!
There is no such thing as privacy on the internet. You can't even delete something from your computer because it is saved in a deleted file that most people don't know about. That is why police search computers for crimes.
When utilizing the internet, people need to realize they are on the Wide World Web - not in their private backyard.
I understand your point, but I agree with bws on this one. I think that in using the Internet you can't care too much about your privacy. Instead you must realize that, as bws wrote, there really is no privacy on the Internet. When you go online, you have to be aware that any of your online actions or records can become public knowledge whether you like it or not.
Certainly we need to protect ourselves when it comes to identity theft, and anyone sharing this information should be thrown in jail. However, when it comes to info that can be found on cookies and in the phonebook, I really am not that concerned. People using this infomatioin aren't concerned about John Doe, they are concerned about people like John Doe. They don't want to target me, they want to target everyone who is like me. It is much more general. This is the difference in my mind, and why I don't share the privacy concerns that it seems many others have.
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