On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:24 PM, ale fernandez <[email protected]> wrote: > With all this talk of how snooping agencies and companies are trading > people's data, wouldn't a citizen aggregated and voluntary free / creative > commons database or similar be of value - perhaps at least as a way of > reducing the value of all these data mining companies? > > Ale
Such self-exposure may sounds kind of personal-data pornography -- and somebody might argue that it wouldn't be so different than disclosing our life to a random peer on a social media site. More seriously, if we believe there is value in privacy, we shouldn't erode our own privacy as modern privacy-kamikaze just to destroy personal information market value. Let's play to win! Of course, a large number of individuals, who genuinely would like to protect their privacy, will not do so because of cognitive biases well documented in behavioral economics and decision research [1]. Cheers, Alfonso [1] Acquisti A., John L., Loewenstein G., "What is privacy worth?", Future of Privacy Forum, http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/papers/acquisti-ISR-worth.pdf -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
