Computers, Privacy & the Constitution

View   r4  >  r3  ...
DanaDelgerFirstPaper 4 - 17 Feb 2009 - Main.TheodoreSmith
Line: 1 to 1
 
META TOPICPARENT name="PartFour"
-- DanaDelger - 15 Feb 2009

Line: 22 to 22
 Is it really that "urbanization has created a world of people who cannot care for themselves and so do not mind who knows the details of their not-caring," or did the move away from self-sufficiency create incentives for others to want to know more about us? Who wants to waste the energy required to learn about the self-sufficient hermit when understanding him doesn't let you take advantage of his need to purchase things? The hermit lives apart from society, so society feels no burning need to control him.

-- AndreiVoinigescu - 16 Feb 2009

Added:
>
>

As to the first point, there may be something to be said about the expectation of anonymity. The city teaches you to live without secrets, but it also teaches you that nobody cares - you witness the lives of people you don't know and don't care about, and you assume they don't know or care about you. The internet is fundamentally different: everything is recorded and saved, and you are a potential source of profit regardless of how uninteresting and ordinary you are. There is no way to keep your head down, no way to attain the anonymity that I feel makes up part of the bargain we make with the city.

-- TheodoreSmith - 17 Feb 2009

 
 
<--/commentPlugin-->

META TOPICMOVED by="EbenMoglen" date="1234736691" from="CompPrivConst.DanaDelger-FirstPaper" to="CompPrivConst.DanaDelgerFirstPaper"

Revision 4r4 - 17 Feb 2009 - 02:52:04 - TheodoreSmith
Revision 3r3 - 16 Feb 2009 - 15:01:36 - AndreiVoinigescu
This site is powered by the TWiki collaboration platform.
All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors.
All material marked as authored by Eben Moglen is available under the license terms CC-BY-SA version 4.
Syndicate this site RSSATOM