http://www.acceity.org/2010/01/privacy-in-the-information-age/ A Southwest Wisconsin Blog Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.acceity.org/2010/01/privacy-in-the-information-age/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Joshua Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:59:02 +0000 http://www.acceity.org/?p=678#comment-95 I'm glad you enjoyed the post. I do think these are important issues. Regarding Facebook, privacy is <em>one</em> reason that I don't have an account, but it is the least of my reasons. I don't think that I would really share very much more about myself at Facebook than I do at this blog. My bigger concerns with Facebook are separate, and really concern the <em>control</em> of information, the <em>structure</em> it imposes on that information and on the social network, and the <em>profit-motive</em> that has led Facebook to turn social relationships into a consumer-centric, advertising-rich, and commodified form that cheapens our sense of ourselves and each other. I’m glad you enjoyed the post. I do think these are important issues. Regarding Facebook, privacy is one reason that I don’t have an account, but it is the least of my reasons. I don’t think that I would really share very much more about myself at Facebook than I do at this blog. My bigger concerns with Facebook are separate, and really concern the control of information, the structure it imposes on that information and on the social network, and the profit-motive that has led Facebook to turn social relationships into a consumer-centric, advertising-rich, and commodified form that cheapens our sense of ourselves and each other.

]]> http://www.acceity.org/2010/01/privacy-in-the-information-age/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Eric Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:37:32 +0000 http://www.acceity.org/?p=678#comment-94 Hello! I loved reading this one. I looked onto the formula for figuring out who someone is by looking at their browser. I have only 18.75 bits of information released by my browser. That means that I am one in 440872! That was an interesting piece on entropy. This is a very interesting blog post as well as topical because so many people are worrying about privacy that they do not realize that just browsing the internet is compromising it. No, no to Facebook, eh? Is that another reason why you are not on there? Hello! I loved reading this one. I looked onto the formula for figuring out who someone is by looking at their browser. I have only 18.75 bits of information released by my browser. That means that I am one in 440872! That was an interesting piece on entropy. This is a very interesting blog post as well as topical because so many people are worrying about privacy that they do not realize that just browsing the internet is compromising it. No, no to Facebook, eh? Is that another reason why you are not on there?

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