Why No One Cares About Privacy Anymore

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that most of you DO care about your privacy. Now, I am sure the majority of the masses out there install on any ol’ thing, never read a TOS and don’t care about privacy (until you tell them what information they are actually sharing). I’m just saying I think you guys are a lot more savvy than that.

"As a social good," says Richard Posner, the federal judge and iconoclastic conservative, "I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth." That isn't a defense of snooping as much as a warning of the flip side of privacy--concealing facts that are discreditable, including those that other people have a legitimate reason for knowing.

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