RE: [projectvrm] Scott Adams: Information is the Cure for Privacy

[Aaron Stewart < >]

Well, it's like saying that the cure to hospitals is health. So, to get rid 
of 
hospitals, all we need to do is imagine that we're in a world in which people 
don't get sick or have accidents.

The world he imagines is a fantasy, as desirable as it may otherwise be.

It's certainly no basis on which to construct policy.

Cheers,
Aaron Stewart
Chief Operating Officer
Personal Information Management Ltd
New Zealand


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Subject: Re: [projectvrm] Scott Adams: Information is the Cure for Privacy


Usually it's the well paid middle class straight white guys that diss 
privacy. 
They have no need for it. Go figure.
But when rich white comedians like Scott Adams provide social commentary on 
privacy under the guise of running a joke, it's a bit sick.
He asks people if they'd really need privacy if everyone knew everything 
about 
everybody (and, to boot, if we didn't believe in god anymore). Really? It's 
probably more interesting to survey people if they'd like to get to work by 
personal flying car.

Cheers,

Steve.

Stephen Wilson
Managing Director
Lockstep Group
Phone +61 (0)414 488 851
http://lockstep.com.au
Lockstep Consulting provides independent specialist advice and analysis on 
digital identity and privacy.  Lockstep Technologies develops unique new 
smart 
ID solutions that enhance privacy and prevent identity theft.


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From: "Adrian Gropper" 
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Sent: Thursday, 14 August, 2014 8:34am
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Subject: Re: [projectvrm] Scott Adams: Information is the Cure for Privacy

This seems loony. Privacy is primarily that which makes innovation and 
invention safer. Trying to categorize it by speculating on the various 
potential domains of innovation one by one seems to miss the point of 
innovation altogether.

Adrian

On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Doc Searls 
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wrote:

> Meant to provoke:
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> <http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/information_is_the_cure_for_privacy
> />
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> > My larger point is that society should not be looking for ways to
> maintain privacy. It should be looking for ways to make privacy
> unnecessary. We will never be free until we lose our unnecessary
> secrets and discover we are better off without them.
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> But food for thought.
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> Doc



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Adrian Gropper MD

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