Does anyone care to keep their movie preferences private?
(Let alone the fact that this groups people broadly into demographic clusters and "preferences" are defined vaguely as a rating between 1 and 5.)
(Let alone the fact that this groups people broadly into demographic clusters and "preferences" are defined vaguely as a rating between 1 and 5.)
Any information I provide about which I am not explicitly notified of its publicness I feel should be kept private.
I was dissuaded further from trying Mint when I saw that they released aggregated information on customer spending. Even aggregated, they are taking their customers' private banking data and making it available to the public. I don't care if it can't be traced back to the individual. It was a still, in my mind, a breach of privacy.
Recent tech history has shown us how un-anonymous anonymized data is. You only have to follow Hacker News or Schneier on Security to know just how often such issues come up.
Security and privacy by obscurity are never, NEVER enough. Period.
I'm not trying to sidetrack the conversation into gay issues. This applies without loss of generality to other personal identity issues that conflict with one's surrounding culture.