March 19 2010
Publicy And The Erosion Of Privacy
I was unable to present my talk at last week’s Social Business Summit in Austin because of my mother’s grave condition and subsequent passing. But I had written a post on the topic that Brian Mennell put up on the Dachis Group blog today:
Privacy concerns seem to be constantly in the news, like the recent furor about ‘full body scanners’ being deployed in airports to peer below our clothes as a response to the Abdulmutallab bomb attempt, or the spasm of concerns following the recent demo of TAT’s Recognizr augmented reality application that can determine the identity of people from cell phone pictures or video streams based on public domain photos.
The Western concept of our rights of privacy boil down to the right to conceal information about ourselves, as in the privacy of our homes, or the skin below our clothes. It is tied very tightly to our sharing of physical space, and the mores and laws that arbitrate the rights of the individual to conceal information from others and the rights of the state to demand and access information about us for public order.
I did give the same talk earlier in the week, at We Media, and there is a video of that here.
