
And they care just as much about privacy online as they do offline.

People of all ages care deeply about privacy. No matter how many times a privileged straight white male technology executive pronounces the death of privacy, Privacy Is Not Dead. Oh really? I do all sorts of things I don’t want anyone to know about, nothing crazy or illegal, but personal and private. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. There is nothing wrong with asking questions and wanting answers, especially in regard to privacy.ĥ. It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.

If we ignore small gradual erosions to privacy, especially in the name of convenience or safety, we risk a much larger overall loss that we aren’t aware of until its too late.ħ. The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable. He was Chairman of the Board from 2001 to 2003 under the Bush Administration.”Ĩ. ~ Richard PerleĪccording to Wikipedia – “Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor and lobbyist who worked for the Reagan administration as an assistant Secretary of Defense and worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

I don’t think I really have to comment on this one, its just amusing.ĩ. Our work to improve privacy continues today. Hopefully they will get you thinking about privacy, if you weren’t before, and spark some conversation.ġ0. As part of National Privacy week I thought I would share some of my favorite quotes about privacy.
