On: Proof That Startups Don't Care About Privacy

[lamby]

Have you considered the possibility that "privacy" is mostly a Hacker News moral panic, an obsession of the sententious personality that only really leaks out into the outside world when it can drive eyeballs or pageviews?

[pessimizer → lamby]

You're overestimating the influence of Hacker News, and underestimating the historical concern that people have had about their personal information being used to power commercial business.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...

Hacker News, 1890?

[alexqgb → lamby]

This has less to do with moral panics, and more to do with an acute awareness of the dangers that come with unidirectional transparency.

HN's demographic may be more attuned to these problems than most, but it's absurd to think that this basic concern is feature of this community alone.

[untog → lamby]

The Path address book issue was featured in the New York Times. So, no.