{"id":1201,"date":"2011-05-27T09:40:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2011-12-21T09:53:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T14:53:46","slug":"once-again-the-importance-of-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2011\/05\/27\/once-again-the-importance-of-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Again: The Importance of Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My work as a mentor for the <a title=\"home page: Raider Robotix - FIRST Team 25\" href=\"http:\/\/www.raiderrobotix.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">local robotics team<\/a> puts me in contact with lots of smart kids from all over this rock. One of the (many) things that astound me is the continual erosion of awareness and concern for personal privacy. If there&#8217;s one way that I guess I really show my age it&#8217;s that I still hold that archaic concept in pretty high regard.<\/p>\n<p>This article, from <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, is a very astute response to what&#8217;s probably the most common retort, &#8220;if you&#8217;ve got nothing to hide then there&#8217;s nothing to worry about.&#8221; Actually, the worries are very, very real.<\/p>\n<p>Go read\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"article: Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have &#039;Nothing to Hide&#039;\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if\/127461\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have &#8216;Nothing to Hide&#8217;<\/a>, by\u00c2\u00a0Daniel J. Solove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My work as a mentor for the local robotics team puts me in contact with lots of smart kids from all over this rock. One of the (many) things that astound me is the continual erosion of awareness and concern for personal privacy. If there&#8217;s one way that I guess I really show my age &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2011\/05\/27\/once-again-the-importance-of-privacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Once Again: The Importance of Privacy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[48,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}