[mfoy_]

I feel like this issue, and others like it, cannot be thrown in people's faces enough. People need to get angry to affect change.

If we want our industry to take privacy seriously, we need people to take a principled stand. Making them aware of, and outraged over, flagrant violations of your privacy, and trust, is the easiest way to do that.

[TAForObvReasons]

The battle is lost. People by and large have decided that it is worth sacrificing most of their privacy to use "free" services like Facebook and google. The only relief at this point is regulatory.

[icebraining]

Awareness is not just useful to convince people to act individually, it's also useful if you want to pass that legislation.

[ksk]

> The only relief at this point is regulatory.

But why would the government intervene in a private decision that citizens have made?

[aeorgnoieang]

Why bother protecting something that most people, as you yourself claim, don't actually value that highly?

[tome]

Because it's actually valuable.

[ksk]

What does that mean? People don't value it, ergo, not valuable.

[walterstucco]

Your privacy is my privacy

We talk at the phone, we chat, we take pictures together

If you don't mind about your privacy you're probably hurting someone else's

[dllthomas]

Yeah, and just because many people are happy to trade it away doesn't mean everyone is. (And of course many don't realize just how much they're trading away...)

[Shivetya]

Privacy? What privacy? It most jurisdictions in this country I can search property records, obtain the names of those owning if not in residence, property values, when purchased and so on. Then I can cross reference other government databases and eventually onto private setups like the one in the article.

people and washington are bemoaning what happens at Google, Facebook, and the like, yet totally ignoring all the information readily available to the public for anyone to take from government itself.

Example, if you know a street address or owner's name in Cobb County Georgia will allow you to search. The amount of information available there is and the type is far more dangerous than what was discovered via a facebook quiz.