I worry a lot about privacy. The first half of this short video about the privacy policy of Facebook.com is great (the second half is a bit too much of a six-degrees-of-separation game to associate Facebook.com with the CIA). What’s particularly interesting is that, when Facebook.com is discussed in the press, there is rarely any mention of its privacy policy, so it’s interesting to see someone shine a light on it. Bottom line: there are very few people interested in actually protecting your privacy. I doubt privacy protection will come from market forces. With cryptography, we have the technology to ensure privacy while enabling information exchange. But who’s going to deploy it? I don’t know of a good answer, and that’s a bit worrisome.
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