here’s a well-researched and lengthy article examining the issue of privacy, and the legalities surrounding the matter of ‘identity’ in the digital age – starting with instances of employers using online searches to determine whether or not employees should keep their jobs, or even be employed in the first place. alerted to this on the email list by one of our old hands, and well worth the read.
the discussion in the article is based on the fact that we have the ability now to keep permanent records of everything everyone has ever posted or written on the internet. the article also deals with the potential of web3.0 to search and find almost anything anyone might wish to track…using new technologies such as face recognition for example….
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html
oh, and loss of privacy in..er… ‘real life’…
here’s a random-ish excerpt:
[i take it hoon, this has nothing to do with you - still, one might feel rankled at the use of the term '4square' in the light of your uptake of the term...]