Using free online services is an agreed-upon exchange; people give personal details and get a service, “It’s nothing new. We’ve been selling our privacy for a while now,” write Chris Taylor and Ron Webb for the Harvard Business Review. The tipping point on the scales when “the intrusions on privacy outweigh the benefits” may be “the advent of Big Data,” the authors state, offering tips on how to evaluate the privacy tradeoff. Meanwhile, a TechCrunch op-ed opines that as cheaper technology becomes available in poorer nations, government intrusions will likely increase. “It can’t be long before privacy becomes, like clean water or reliable power, something that only the rich can afford,” Jon Evans writes.
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