Schneier on Google and Facebook's View of Privacy
Bruce Schneier, an internationally recognized privacy and security expert, opinion piece for Forbe's Magazine upends the mantra from Google and Facebook that "privacy is dead." Actually if it were dead they would not be talking about it, but I digress. Schneier points out one important fact about privacy--we care about it based on our ability to control who has access to what information. The core value of privacy is not ownership, but control because the power relationship in a transaction would rarely be equal between consumer and service provider. Public debate is the best method for flushing out the policy and legal issues regarding The Right to Privacy.
Commentary, Google And Facebook's Privacy Illusion, Bruce Schneier, Forbes April 06, 2010,
