If your privacy is the hands of others alone, you don’t have any
If you think regulations are going to protect your privacy, you're wrong. In fact they can make things worse, especially if they start with the assumption that you have no privacy…
Doc Searls is editor-in-chief of Linux Journal, where he has been on the masthead since 1996. He is also co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto (Basic Books, 2000, 2010), author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012), a fellow of the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an alumnus fellow of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He continues to run ProjectVRM at that Center, and co-founded its nonprofit spinoff, Customer Commons. He also co-founded and co-organizes the twice-yearly Internet Identity Workshop at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.
If you think regulations are going to protect your privacy, you're wrong. In fact they can make things worse, especially if they start with the assumption that you have no privacy…
The first comment in response to Privacy is Personal was this tweet by @raouf777: It is also a fundamental right, not a privilege to be bestowed on anyone. The individual should have the…
You can't get more private than I am right now: in a locked room, alone, unconnected to anything. Privacy is personal. It's not a service provided by somebody else. It's…