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Re: [projectvrm] Forbes: Can the Privacy Revolution Prevail?


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  • From: Doc Searls < >
  • To: Crosbie Fitch < >
  • Cc: ProjectVRM list < >
  • Subject: Re: [projectvrm] Forbes: Can the Privacy Revolution Prevail?
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 16:23:58 -0800


> On Jan 11, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Crosbie Fitch
> < >
> wrote:
>
> 'privacy revolution'?
>
> There can be no revolution in privacy, a natural right - unless Homo
> Sapiens underwent a revolution, developed telepathy, say.

A "privacy revolution" doesn't have to be a revolution *in* privacy, but
could be, for example...
>
> All the punditry on 'privacy' will eventually fizzle out and people will
> realise that the Internet had no effect upon it. The Internet simply makes
> communication/dissemination far easier.

... a realization that:

> Privacy is what it's always been, a natural, physical boundary about one or
> more human beings.
>
> The most advanced understanding of privacy, even in the advent of modern
> technology, is the eldest.

Doc


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