Cory Doctorow: Is Your Search History Really Anonymous?

[happinesson]

his list sounds funny, but it is true! It our right and privacy needs to be protected..

[harrisandrew91]

so unussual but it's kinda amazing…

[abdishtar]

"how to kill you're wife?"

Hand her over to Abdishtar, no killing necessary, he'd be glad to take her for you, he's sick of being single. lol

[Mrmoc7]

"How to kill your wife?"

Funny that some are searching this, while I'm still trying to figure out how to get laid.... Goddammit!!

[DSBrekus]

Unfortunately on the internet including youtube and certain online gaming cultures we see the negative side effects of anonymity.

Somehow people think being anonymous means their behavior no longer matters, despite the reality that the moral implications remain unchanged.

Have you ever heard someone say "he/she is really nice in real life" as if that makes any difference.

Maybe its just young kids thinking they are rebelling, maybe the grow out of it, I hope we can keep anonymity, but idk.

[LokiClock]

Anonymous actions reflect people's true desires. Anonymous, mainly textual displays of socially unacceptable behavior is more of an outlet than anything, and will allow people to grow past those modes of behavior. It may be disconcerting that people act differently when anonymous, but it would be much worse if they couldn't act out anonymously in any way, either. It's the same reason why kids need to play without their parents watching them.

[kevintype]

Personal privacy is gone. I'm not speaking against privacy - it was nice while it lasted - but it has become a thing of the past. Now our challenge is to preserve freedom in a post-privacy world.

The problem we face is that corporate market researchers can monitor our activities, but we cannot monitor what they do with our data.

The solution may be transparency: requiring corporate interests to disclose how they use every piece of the information they collect about us.

[lovechrissmag]

This is not shocking in the least bit.

[TheJamesPope]

Five Stars

Everyone should share this

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[lanceawatt]

Be vigilant. Our privacy is all that stands between our freedoms and a totalitarian society.

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

"Our privacy is all that stands between our freedoms and a totalitarian society. "

Well privacy and free speech.

[l8rthen]

Well done. ForaTV. kudos!

[GuppyPal]

This kind of stuff scares me because I know there are people out there who want everybody's search queries monitored to make us "safer." We may be safer, but I'd rather have my privacy. Every rule takes away a freedom. Don't forget that.

[Vogter2100]

@GuppyPal Anybody that trades freedom for security deserves neither.

[marsCubed]

@GuppyPal

"Every rule takes away a freedom. Don't forget that."

So you think there should be no 'rules' to protect privacy?

your comment is nonsense.

[SaintsOfImpurity]

@marsCubed im sure hes just advocating a balance between the two

[On1yCheryl]

In the 1990's there was a saying that you could be as anonymous as you wanted to be on the internet. That really isn't true. There will always be a way to identify someone by various means. There will always be those who can work the system, but the average user just doesn't know enough to really hide.