Comments on: The Birth And Death Of Privacy https://www.isegoria.net/2015/12/the-birth-and-death-of-privacy/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Slovenian Guest https://www.isegoria.net/2015/12/the-birth-and-death-of-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-2441945 Slovenian Guest Sun, 06 Dec 2015 13:02:15 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39348#comment-2441945 “This portends a future where most people will increasingly choose ever more invasive tracking”

When data mining is baked into most consumer software, data retention in one form or another is mandated by law and everything is tied into the borg cloud, there is no choice to be made.

]]> By: Scipio Americanus https://www.isegoria.net/2015/12/the-birth-and-death-of-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-2441547 Scipio Americanus Sat, 05 Dec 2015 14:47:57 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39348#comment-2441547 The silent reading thing is a load of hooey, as are a couple of the specifics in the other sections. In general, though, it is correct that most people in the past made due with far less privacy than has been common in recent times.

However, there’s no normative content to that fact. Most people in the past were also destitute serfs, by our modern standards. If our society took a turn for destitute serfdom then we would rightly be alarmed, even though it’s historically typical.

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