Is privacy is on its deathbed in Facebook Era?

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4 points·nickbilton··3 comments

With more people posting about themselves online, and search technology advancing, no one is private online anymore.

What's the thing about article titles posing questions? The answer is always "no."

My guess is during this decade, there will be a push toward becoming inaccessible and exclusive. The internet club is a bit overcrowded and their door policy has become lax. I wouldn't be surprised to see identity management and personal automated PR agencies start springing up as a service. If you can't filter yourself, just pay someone (or something) else to do it.

Major Domo Bot: "Do you really want to send this tweet: 'im soooo wasted on teqiuza!!' to your business associates? I'd suggest editing it to 'Having a great time in SoHo!'"

Privacy is now opt-in. Before now it was a case of information being too inaccessible, too fragmented and meaningless. Facebook, automatic facial recognition, tagging and all that has changed that. Now you have to political ask someone not to upload the photo they took of you, you have to dig deep into the Terms and Conditions of everything you sign up to, you have to untick boxes everywhere, you have worry about data breaches etc. Privacy is now hard work.

No, privacy is just under assault by a company that makes money on destroying privacy, and selling your demographic data to marketers. I suspect that this greed-oriented intrusion is a temporary condition.

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