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

["Wunderlich, John" < >]

Crosbie;

Privacy, in the natural world where human being interact using the technology of manipulated sound waves, visual stimuli, and scratches on clay tablets was and is a negotiated terrain of selected disclosure, retention and risk management decisions about what to share and what to keep close. The Internet is a different tool set for the same set of decisions, but is a tool set that many people are, as yet, unfamiliar with. Privacy [insert appropriate noun]s are working to extend the tool set, or peoples' awareness of these new tools to enable them to make the same deep choices they make orally and visually. It's about the interaction and exchange of information - the information boundaries we set and maintain. There's a good book by Sandra Petronio called the, "Boundaries of Privacy" that I'd recommend on this.

I'm not saying that the physical boundaries of home, hearth and a home in the woods aren't real. But that's about isolation and seclusion, which is only part of the what most people understand privacy to mean. 

John Wunderlich

Privacist @PrivacyCDN

On 11 January 2015 at 17:27, Crosbie Fitch < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

'privacy revolution'?

 

There can be no revolution in privacy, a natural right - unless Homo Sapiens underwent a revolution, developed telepathy, say.

 

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. 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.

 

 

 

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