The Guardian view on privacy: computers gossip
The Guardian
We live our lives on the internet and now privacy is more of a concern when it comes to political freedoms. The Indian supreme court decided that the country must have privacy which delays plans for a unique way to identify individuals however, China on the other hand aim to make sure that no one posts online without their real identity being known. A few in the west avoid keeping secrets on smartphones which can access private information such as where we have been. Restrictions on privacy have had a desirable effect. The absence of privacy can have negative effects like when trusting someone with vast amounts of information about yourself. Computer gossip, what we tell one may soon be known to millions.
- Privacy, it turns out, is always limited. What matters is not the fact that we have secrets, but whom we keep those secrets from.
- extraordinary power of computer networks to consolidate and sift information, whether it’s true or false
I think that privacy is a big issue nowadays and that whether having to much or too little of it can be dangerous to society. With the massive changes the internet brings it is difficult to measure how much privacy is enough privacy. For instance, computer gossip plays a role in cyberbullying. In that sense it can be a negative thing.
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