| Given how much corruption is revealed in wikileaks maybe less privacy is not a bad trade off. What amaze me is the tendency for our society to call for more privacy that favors the more powerful, hence the more likely to be corrupted. If we want make it easy for our leaders to be corrupted I definitively would call for more cryptography. Me except the normal "shameful" stuff from the common people I want privacy to. Like anyone I have stuff I want to hide. But, it is okay if I get _caught_. I will not say everything I did is okay, because, I still have hurt indirectly people. There are stuff I want to hide to protect myself from the intolerant crowd. But guess what, I have as much as I could went to present my excuses, and took responsibility for my own shitty actions. And for the stuff I should not be ashamed of, I don't see the need to hide it, in a democracy we have the freedom to fight for our opinions. None of my stupid stuff requiring privacy have been leading to blood being shed, exploitation, or making the market noncompetitive. With greater power/wealth should come greater transparency. And iPhone are definitively more expensive than most phones. So let's remember that is often the look from the others that makes us more virtuous, and let us all accept to live in an house made of glass (except for the bathroom, and the bedrooms). In a fair competitive market access to information is symmetrical. In a real democracy government are expected to be openly enforcing the choices of the voters. In a world tending towards virtue, there is no need for more privacy. |