Dan Widyono wrote:
Privacy isn't always about authorities. It's also about keeping your
snooping neighbors from knowing everything about you, for example. Another
example of privacy that doesn't involve authorities, is that bad guys should
not have easy access to identifying information about myself.
Dan, we're using computers to communicate, order things, download our
banking information, make our mortgage payments, and Lord knows what
else. We're _already_ risking far more sensitive information about
ourselves. It seems silly to worry about Tivo and our _TV viewing
habits_ in this context.
A more fitting example for this discussion is that I don't want marketers to
pigeon-hole me using data they're collecting from the set-top box, thus
potentially altering the input I receive (via TV, internet, etc.) in a manner
that I can't easily control; i.e. I'd like to manage my environment, and so
do marketers.
"I'd like to manage my environment," but you're presenting an argument
against TiVo.
I'm going to giggle now.
Dan W.
I think I know the problem here. You're presuming that, if you watch
something 'wrong,' that the authorities will come after you.
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