[hluska]

I would like to, but the more I think about it, the more envious I feel. It sounds like you have a peaceful life, or could if you'd stop worrying about not being worried about privacy! :)

I think that privacy is important for a couple of reasons:

1) I don't trust marketers with data. My education is in marketing, so I understand the mindset. Hell, I know I could make significantly more in the marketing industry, but I don't want to be socialized into that mindset.

2) Privacy provides a private space upon which we can build identity. Identity provides the foundation for the rest of our human rights. I have a very good friend who happens to be a trans woman. She describes her process as having the freedom to take baby steps alone in the privacy of her home until she had a strong enough identity to start to be more out to friends, then family and finally just out.

3) I have a child and feel I should err on the side of her privacy until she's old enough to decide to trade privacy for free stuff.

But, if you can convince me that it's not worth worrying about these things, I'm open to hearing your arguments. I'd like to be convinced I'm wrong!