Writer's Block: Confidential

[packbat]

Prying eyes are everywhere, from pesky younger siblings to the Patriot Act. What steps do you take to protect your privacy, on or offline? View other answers

Like most people, I use the incredible power of not doing anything worth invading my privacy for. It's dumb, but I don't really worry about people invading my privacy most of the time.

Comments

[bourgeoisify.livejournal.com]

I agree completely with this! I don't disclose information. :D

It's reached the point where I have two distinct online identities.

[the-zaniak.livejournal.com]

I have no real sense of privacy. I publish almost every thought that comes into my head.

[remix79.livejournal.com]

Well, the more you know about someone, the more you can predict their next move, the more you can control them and the less worrisome the gathering of future information becomes. Sure, it's fine in today's society where we actually are pretty sensitive about treating people right. But it's like the right to own guns; they aren't really important until shit hits the fan.

The problem is the gathering of information is so abstract and we haven't reached an event that really makes people stand up and take notice about how much information someone or some organization knows about you. Take the right of health care companies to refuse you health care based on your genes; I can see that on coming. It was even a debate topic a year or so ago.

There is no clear line where we know that "too much" information has been gathered; we're simply being protective, and we don't know exactly when to say when.

I find it worrisome, but it's so abstract and there is no clear danger on the horizon, so we don't know how to muster a good example to protect ourselves. I think I'll post more in my own journal...