There is an ongoing discussion whether we should fear more government intrusion into our privacy, or negligence of the company with our most private data. This is a false framing of actual developments. What we have to fear is the "and", not the "or" :. The two combined make the true Orwellian nightmare
said that a part of VISA can predict your divorce a year before 're aware of yourself, based on nothing but your history of 'purchase. A famous story tells how a store chain has been able to say that a teenager was pregnant before her father knew, simply on the basis of its purchases. Imagine what would Facebook or Google know about you?
Imagine, for example, your doctor calls you and says you have been diagnosed with an unusual disease of some strange name. The first tell you about this is not your immediate family or your best friends. It is Google. As for Facebook, he not only knows what you look like, but almost all of your interests and preferences - not mention if any of your friends are subversive dissidents; perhaps a little too much of them?
Taken in isolation, this is largely irrelevant for a very simple reason. We are customers of Google and Facebook, and they have no interest in breaking our door in riot gear if we feel bad or immoral criminal thinking. Our thoughts are interesting to Google and Facebook (and tastes) to the extent that they are profitable in one way or another, cynical thought can be.
Now enter politicians offline born helpless into the equation, and mix in a little arrogance. They observe how the net generation freely sharing many of their private details online, and falsely assume that means that the net generation does not care about privacy at all - that politicians have a degree of moral flexibility to move and take the rest of the force.
to illustrate how horribly wrong this thinking is, imagine that the same politicians had observed that most people give money to charity, and used this data to infer that people do not care more for their money, and therefore, that politicians have a certain margin of maneuver morality intrude into the homes of citizens and take the rest of their money by force.
There is a question whether you are doing something voluntarily or are forced to do so, and that this difference is huge. Just because the net production has different standards of privacy that non-born, it does not mean they do not care about privacy at all - they just care about the privacy of in a different way, and that must be respected [
Unfortunately, it has not respected today. Not at all. The danger lies in the data we freely give certain companies - Google, Facebook, et cetera - combined with a wicked government appetite, omnivorous and voracious to go and just take it all at will, whether we agree or not not. And where Facebook and Google will hunt you down for having bad friends or ideas, governments have their work to do.
In summary, the danger is not in the business negligently our private data we write a lot of private things or NSA spying and secret government orders. The danger lies in the combination both.
Your privacy is and remains your own responsibility.
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