Privacy - the real deal
Adriana nails it, as usual:
My take on privacy is that it is a policy of the individual, not in a sense of privacy policy for the individual selected from a given selection, in the style of Creative Commons. Huge difference. For instance, I have a policy about who I let into my house. I don’t need to display it on my doors or attach it to my address or business cards. It is far more convenient and flexible for me to decide there and then, when someone’s knocking at the door. It is my implicit privacy policy that kicks in. Sure, I don’t want junk mail or door-to-door salesmen but just because I can display notices to that effect, doesn’t mean that is the way to deal with the rest of humankind. So online, it is about creating tools that help the individual control the data to the point that he/she decides practically and directly who gets to see what - without a third party or intermediary…
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And of course its the third parties, whoever they may be, and who stand to make a buck off it that make the biggest deal about privacy policies.