> Everything has its price. Privacy is no different. It is not as though it is a human right!
Really? Is this a principle of your consulting practice because if so you might be advising your clients to commit crimes against humanity.
I refer you to Article 12 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a12 ) which states:
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Of course, some clients might scoff at the authority of the UN. If they happen to be in the UK then perhaps they recognize Article 8 of the Human Rights Act of 1988 ( http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/schedule/1/part/I/chapter/7 ) which states:
Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
No multi-million pound ad campaign will erase the human right to privacy. This isn't one of those subjective things like "Coke is better than Pepsi" that you can just keep repeating until it becomes true for your target demographic. You'll actually need to convince a bunch of people to repeal some laws first.
> although many people are concerned about their lack of digital privacy they typically expect someone else, i.e. government, to do something about it.
Ya think? Perhaps that's because the government has pledged to do exactly that when they passed the law. See above for references. Some would say the government are actually *obliged* to uphold the aforementioned laws as if doing so were, you know, mandatory and stuff.
Of course, I may be dead wrong about all this. It has happened before. (I know, right?) In that case can you tell us who, besides you, is above these laws and why? Also, it would be handy to have a spreadsheet because us citizens serfs tend to assume nobody is above the laws and, at least in my case, find it difficult to identify those who are. Take you for instance. There is no crown in your profile photo or other identifying characteristic to indicate your elevated extrajudicial status. It is only when you put words to (virtual) paper that anyone can tell that the laws don't apply to you.
Barring that possibility, we now return you to your regularly scheduled reality where, yes, there is an actual universal human right of privacy.
Kind regards,
-- T.Rob
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From: Graham Hill [
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Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 10:39 AM
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Subject: [projectvrm] Greg Satell on Let’s Face It, We Don’t Really Care About Privacy ??????????????
Hi Doc
Harvard Business Review blogger Greg Satell has just published an interesting post on 'Let’s Face It, We Don’t Really Care About Privacy' on his Digital Tonto blog (http://www.digitaltonto.com/2014/lets-face-it-we-dont-really-care-about-privacy/?utm_source=Digital%20Tonto%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=848a327f51-The_Social_Tax12_13_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e316dce02-848a327f51-389199989&ct=t%28The_Social_Tax12_13_2014%29). Greg references a new Pew Internet Report on 'Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowdeen Era' (http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/11/12/public-privacy-perceptions/) that highlights that although many people are concerned about their lack of digital privacy they typically expect someone else, i.e. government, to do something about it. And as an earlier Boston Consulting Group report on 'Data Privacy by the Numbers' (http://www.slideshare.net/TheBostonConsultingGroup/data-privacy-by-the-numbers) shows, these same people are often willing to give away increasingly intimate information about themselves in exchange for something of value.
As the old saying hoses… Everything has its price. Privacy is no different. It is not as though it is a human right!
Thoughts?
Best regards from Bristol, Graham
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