Unwitting Victims: The Third-Party Privacy Problem

• It seems to me that you took the long way round here. The simple way to put it is to say that there is more information around than there used to be. Also, gossip is becoming public rather than private communication. So the gossip has become verifiable, because there are always photos taken by somebody on Flicker, and we're all acting as intelligence agents by tagging one another's photos. Not to mention that all the witnesses are blogging. There's no conceivable way that we can be for freedom of speech and also be trying to keep people from gossiping, even though all gossip is now public and permanent. That took me fewer than ninety words, which means you would then have 90% of the essay available to develop an insight about what happens next, which is supposed to be your subject .