A reasonably-written article in the New York Times. What troubles me is the attitude that privacy really doesn’t matter, which seems to be gaining traction in some circles.<\/p>\n
[…] some collective-intelligence researchers argue that strong concerns about privacy rights are a relatively recent phenomenon in human history.<\/p>\n
“The new information tools symbolized by the Internet are radically changing the possibility of how we can organize large-scale human efforts,” said Thomas W. Malone, director of the M.I.T. Center for Collective Intelligence.<\/p>\n
“For most of human history, people have lived in small tribes where everything they did was known by everyone they knew,” Dr. Malone said. “In some sense we’re becoming a global village. Privacy may turn out to have become an anomaly.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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A reasonably-written article in the New York Times. What troubles me is the attitude that privacy really doesn’t matter, which seems to be gaining traction in some circles. […] some collective-intelligence researchers argue that strong concerns about privacy rights are a relatively recent phenomenon in human history. “The new information tools symbolized by the Internet … Continue reading You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?<\/span>