[miguelrochefort]

Privacy is simply not sustainable.

Imagine all the lost opportunities, all the worry, all the steps some people take to conceal the truth. It can't go forever, and it will become increasingly more expensive to keep the privacy you had in the past, simply because technology makes transparency cheap and ubiquitous.

Designing a society that relies on the secrecy of certain information is a recipe for disaster. Passwords, credit cards, etc. It won't be long before we simply can't keep any of these secrets, and we will have to switch to a better identification system.

I've had enough to worry about what people might think if they encounter the truth. I don't want to lie anymore. I don't want to keep and remember secrets anymore. I don't want to watch each of my steps and hide behind 7 proxies when I surf the web.

We're due for a paradigm change toward transparency, and the earlier the better. Privacy and secrecy only leads to deception and inefficiencies.