hydeph's comments

On: Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"

[hydeph]

reminds me of this riff on privacy by Bruce Schneier from a few years back addressing the same notion that Schmidt is quoted here to believe

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_p...

[JulianMorrison → hydeph]

Privacy protects from abusive power, and privacy protects from irrational judgment: true but incomplete. Privacy allows us to tolerate these problems - rather than being forced to confront them. That may not be a good thing.

[roc → JulianMorrison]

Society is full of things we compartmentalize, minimize and tolerate.

Mostly, because we don't know how to confront them. I certainly don't know how to patch human nature so that power doesn't corrupt. So, in the meantime, I'll take privacy, thanks.