Re: <nettime> "Google distorts reality"

["chad scov1lle" <chad@chadscoville.com>]

Excellent point. I was just having a conversation similar to that where b=
oth parties more or less arrived at the idea that the human cognitive con=
cept of 'privacy' is akin to a closed-source platform, and henceforth not=
 scalable.....:)

-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Hagenlocher [mailto:curt@hagenlocher.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:13 PM
To: nettime-l@kein.org
Subject: Re: <nettime> "Google distorts reality"

From: nettime-l-bounces@kein.org [mailto:nettime-l-bounces@kein.org] On
Behalf Of geert lovink

> "Google is massively invading privacy," the study said with the company=
> knowing more than any other organization about individuals and
> companies, but not bound by national data protection laws.

How will we old people explain "privacy" to the generations that have
grown up posting all manner of information and pictures to their
myspace pages that in previous years would have been fodder for
blackmail?
 <...>


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