> building up an alternate identity in various social sites
I wonder when we will see the startups that offer this as a personalized service. It can be equally responsive to law enforcement, should actual legal processes are involved, but for any other actor besides the law, the illusion can be real.
In Vinge's novel Rainbow's End, there is a group called the Friends of Privacy which basically exists to obfuscate and inject noise into the identifying information found online.
I wonder when we will see the startups that offer this as a personalized service. It can be equally responsive to law enforcement, should actual legal processes are involved, but for any other actor besides the law, the illusion can be real.