{"id":191,"date":"2007-02-15T09:37:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T17:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2007\/02\/15\/privacy-in-the-internet-age\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T09:37:41","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T17:37:41","slug":"privacy-in-the-internet-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/02\/privacy-in-the-internet-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy in the Internet Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dar\u00adren Bare\u00adfoot<\/a> has some inter\u00adest\u00ading thoughts about pri\u00advacy in the inter\u00adnet age and the way in which today\u2019s north amer\u00adic\u00adan teen\u00adagers are grow\u00ading up post\u00ading everything about their lives on the inter\u00adnet. Up till now, most of the dis\u00adcus\u00adsion I\u2019ve read on the sub\u00adject has revolved around the effects on future careers of post\u00ading poten\u00adtially embar\u00adrass\u00ading stuff on the web. Derek Miller<\/a> points out that bosses will also have embar\u00adrass\u00ading stuff up on the web, although there will still be a gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion gap there for some years until those future bosses become bosses (assum\u00ading that most bosses will still con\u00adtin\u00adue to be older than many of the people they employ).<\/p>\n

We\u2019re start\u00ading to dis\u00adcern the out\u00adlines of some likely effects of this now. For example, if I get an inter\u00adest\u00ading email from someone I haven\u2019t heard of, I\u2019ll look them up in Google or Yahoo search, or Linked\u00adIn. I don\u2019t neces\u00adsar\u00adily ignore the email if I don\u2019t find any inform\u00ada\u00adtion about the per\u00adson, but I can see that hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the future \u2014 if you don\u2019t exist in search engines, is that going to be con\u00adsidered weird?<\/p>\n

Find\u00ading people I\u2019ve lost touch with is get\u00adting easi\u00ader every year, as long as they haven\u2019t changed their name. I\u2019ve man\u00adaged to track down old friends, and oth\u00aders (who did change their name after mar\u00adriage) have man\u00adaged to track me down. Mind you, I\u2019m rel\u00adat\u00adively easy to find. <\/p>\n

One effect I\u2019m won\u00adder\u00ading about is on politi\u00adcians: cur\u00adrently politi\u00adcians either have to be squeaky clean, or good at hid\u00ading things the elect\u00ador\u00adate might not like to hear about. Rudy Giuliani<\/a>\u2019s per\u00adson\u00adal life includes three mar\u00adriages and gay friends, all well-doc\u00adu\u00admented; in pre\u00advi\u00adous years this would have made a pres\u00adid\u00aden\u00adtial cam\u00adpaign basic\u00adally impossible. Now it just makes it more dif\u00adfi\u00adcult, or maybe it\u2019s just dis\u00adcussed more; in future years when more inform\u00ada\u00adtion is avail\u00adable about every\u00adone on the inter\u00adnet, and hid\u00ading these things is going to be impossible, will voters be more accepting?<\/p>\n

One inter\u00adest\u00ading aspect to this is how little inform\u00ada\u00adtion is avail\u00adable about Google\u2019s founders \u2014 and more than a little iron\u00adic, giv\u00aden how easy they\u2019ve made it to find inform\u00ada\u00adtion about oth\u00ader people. An art\u00adicle on Moth\u00ader Jones<\/a>, via Bruce Schnei\u00ader<\/a>, has more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dar\u00adren Bare\u00adfoot has some inter\u00adest\u00ading thoughts about pri\u00advacy in the inter\u00adnet age and the way in which today\u2019s north amer\u00adic\u00adan teen\u00adagers are grow\u00ading up post\u00ading everything about their lives on the inter\u00adnet. Up till now, most of the dis\u00adcus\u00adsion I\u2019ve read on the sub\u00adject has revolved around the effects on future careers of post\u00ading poten\u00adtially \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cPri\u00advacy in the Inter\u00adnet Age\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}