Comments on: Peter Bazalgette on Privacy: a poacher turned game-keeper? http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/05/20/peter-bazalgette-on-privacy-a-poacher-turned-game-keeper/ crass, boorish and more a bruiser than blogger Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:33:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Hywel Morgan http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/05/20/peter-bazalgette-on-privacy-a-poacher-turned-game-keeper/#comment-55907 Hywel Morgan Mon, 21 May 2007 11:01:22 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/05/20/peter-bazalgette-on-privacy-a-poacher-turned-game-keeper/#comment-55907 B*****r Bazalgette has finished off an article I was writing for you on just this subject :-) The aspect he doesn't go on to explore is how there may be a change in attitudes among the population about what a "private life" consists of. In other words information about a persons past is seen as fair game whether they've made it public or not as "it's the sort of thing people post on MySpace..." Firstly that has policy implications in that people become less hostile to the state holding more information about people, "well they could get that from my MySpace so why bother" The public perception will then be that it is the normal thing to share fairly personal information - with a resultant danger that someone who doesn't is seen as a bit odd. It's usual for lazy journalists to mention 1984 or Brave New World when discussing technologicial developments so I'm going to mention both :-) But both books have the issue of an individual who wants to be different from what society deems as normal at their centre and its that expected conformity that may be the bigger long term issue. B*****r Bazalgette has finished off an article I was writing for you on just this subject :-)

The aspect he doesn’t go on to explore is how there may be a change in attitudes among the population about what a “private life” consists of. In other words information about a persons past is seen as fair game whether they’ve made it public or not as “it’s the sort of thing people post on MySpace…”

Firstly that has policy implications in that people become less hostile to the state holding more information about people, “well they could get that from my MySpace so why bother”

The public perception will then be that it is the normal thing to share fairly personal information - with a resultant danger that someone who doesn’t is seen as a bit odd.

It’s usual for lazy journalists to mention 1984 or Brave New World when discussing technologicial developments so I’m going to mention both :-) But both books have the issue of an individual who wants to be different from what society deems as normal at their centre and its that expected conformity that may be the bigger long term issue.

]]> By: Nick http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/05/20/peter-bazalgette-on-privacy-a-poacher-turned-game-keeper/#comment-55795 Nick Sun, 20 May 2007 15:14:03 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/05/20/peter-bazalgette-on-privacy-a-poacher-turned-game-keeper/#comment-55795 On a somewhat related note, you might find <a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_the_future.html" rel="nofollow">this speech by Charles Stross</a> interesting. On a somewhat related note, you might find this speech by Charles Stross interesting.

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