"IMAGINE
a world suddenly devoid of doors. None in your home, on dressing rooms,
on the entrance to the local pub or even on restroom stalls at concert
halls. The controlling authorities say if you aren’t doing anything
wrong, then you shouldn’t mind.
Well,
that’s essentially the state of affairs on the Internet. There is no
privacy. If those creepy targeted ads on Google hadn’t tipped you off,
then surely Edward J. Snowden’s revelations, or, more recently, Jennifer Lawrence’s nude selfies, made your vulnerability to cybersnooping abundantly clear.
You need only read George Orwell’s “1984” or watch the film “Minority Report”
to understand how surveillance is incompatible with a free society. And
increasingly, people are coming to understand how their online data
might be used against them. You might not get a job, a loan or a date
because of an indiscreet tweet or if your address on Google Street View
shows your brother-in-law’s clunker in the driveway. But less obvious is
the psychic toll of the current data free-for-all..."
read full article at NYTimes
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