> I think that every single person in this thread can think of a dozen things they wouldn't want made public.
While privacy is definitely going away as we watch, secrecy is alive and well. For both private and secret data, an unrelated person would have difficulty uncovering the information, but privacy is a public good (people who have no inherent interest in hiding the data have access to it), whereas secrecy is a private good.
Those who truly value keeping information about themselves non-public will have to work to keep or make it secret.
> I think that every single person in this thread can think of a dozen things they wouldn't want made public.
While privacy is definitely going away as we watch, secrecy is alive and well. For both private and secret data, an unrelated person would have difficulty uncovering the information, but privacy is a public good (people who have no inherent interest in hiding the data have access to it), whereas secrecy is a private good.
Those who truly value keeping information about themselves non-public will have to work to keep or make it secret.