After reading Bob Blakley’s post about privacy, I’m pretty sure I’ve been thinking about privacy in the wrong way. Blakley, of the Burton Group, noted that “keeping personal information secret” is the wrong definition of privacy. I’m pretty sure that’s how I’ve been thinking about it.
Blakley says, “privacy is the problem you have after you share sensitive information.” He talks about sociability — the “social good which we give to one another, not a social order in which we control one another.”
The key message I’m reading is this statement:
Technology can’t solve privacy problems because they’re not technology problems he says. But technology can make privacy problems worse.
If we accept the technology frame and let technologists define privacy as control over dissemination of information, we ARE going to have less privacy.
Blakley says we need to focus on building sociable spaces, so “people’s social and antisocial actions are exposed to scrutiny so that normal human social processes can work.”
Why do I feel that that’s not the direction we’re traveling?
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