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Rationalization and justification, that's all it is...

adornoe@... 12th Mar 2010

The article above talks about how Google and others view privacy. It is to their benefit to have everybody forget about privacy and to just let loose and share their lives online.

The article does a very tortured attempt to demonstrate how people have come to accept that their privacy is of no concern and it's okay to share even their most intimate secrets with the online world. Just because 1% bothered themselves to register their concerns about the invasion of privacy being undertaken by including their friends list in Buzz, the writers conclude that it means that the other 99% either accepted the invasion of privacy or didn't care. But, did they bother to actually question the 99% directly? I'll bet that there would be a lot more who would register their concerns than the 1% that the article mentions. Just because people don't actively express their concerns is no reason to conclude that they don't care or approve.

The article is no more than an attempt to justify and rationalize the invasion of privacy being undertaken by the likes of Google and Facebook and many other companies online. If anybody ever thought that Google would "do no evil", then they should look at the above article again and examine how Google is rationalizing and justifying their intents to invade all aspects of your life.