I few months ago, a read an article by another blogger who, in response to google’s street-level photo-mapping, said that in this modern age we can pretty much kiss our privacy goodbye. In a way, I think he’s right; there’s so many agencies mining our data these days that our information is almost public already.
Having said that, from the outset I’ve resisted store cards and I still resist many similar things on the web today. Why? Well, because I think the value of my information is worth way more than 20p off a loaf of bread.
At the moment the general public look to be scared of identity theft and of losing credit card data, and that seems to be as far as their thoughts go. But fear is a poor motivator; I wonder how things will change when/if the general public wake up to the value of the data they are giving away for free every day.

P.S. I found this through the Blog Friends Alpha. Welcome aboard ;o)

I few months ago, a read an article by another blogger who, in response to google’s street-level photo-mapping, said that in this modern age we can pretty much kiss our privacy goodbye. In a way, I think he’s right; there’s so many agencies mining our data these days that our information is almost public already.
Having said that, from the outset I’ve resisted store cards and I still resist many similar things on the web today. Why? Well, because I think the value of my information is worth way more than 20p off a loaf of bread.
At the moment the general public look to be scared of identity theft and of losing credit card data, and that seems to be as far as their thoughts go. But fear is a poor motivator; I wonder how things will change when/if the general public wake up to the value of the data they are giving away for free every day.

P.S. I found this through the Blog Friends Alpha. Welcome aboard ;o)