Privacy Is The Victim Of The New Economy
from the virtual-dumpster-diving dept
An interesting opinion piece by David Holtzman, the CTO of Network Solutions talking about the threats to our privacy that are getting worse as people and devices become more interconnected. The easier things are to use, often the less protection they provide for our private lives. And, it could get worse. He points out in the article that beyond just purchasing histories, demographic or credit information, companies will start creating psychological profiles of users. He has a great line at the end: "Data is the waste byproduct of the wired world, and those who are willing to get their hands dirty will use it to discover things about us that will disturb our modern sense of privacy."
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