Sigerson (9/6/2012)

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I don't see good outcomes in the future for our privacy concerns. The use of the web is so financially compelling for corporations that they *must* use it to stay competitive. At the same time, our online privacy and data security are both dwindling by the minute. Part of this is due to corporate disregard, and part is due to many users' own carefree broadcasting of private information. On my worst days, I suspect the Internet may have no more than 2-3 years before the concept of data privacy will be no more than a quaint historical footnote.

As a vocabulary aside--and I say this only because your phrasing is usually so elegant--your choice of flaunt in more companies in general are ignoring, flaunting seemed to clink a little. I'll bet (online!) you meant to use the word flout: to treat with contemptuous disregard?

cdonlan 18448 (9/6/2012)

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Defense.

https://www.torproject.org/

I played around with the Vidalia component a few years back (a little clunky but what do you expect?) and think it's a fascinating project. Others may find it so as well.


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mike.broniszewski (9/6/2012)

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That being said, mailboxes and banks can be robbed, you wallet/phone can be stolen and your car/house broken into. You have personal information in all those places and they are less secure and open to more people for theft than most databases.
Time to get back to loving my data .

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/6/2012)

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I've seen similar things, but they were cumbersome. I worry about the delays and connectivity issues, but perhaps a larger distributed network would solve some of that.

I don't know how things may evolve over time, but I do suspect that privacy and data handling will become more of a part of data professionals' jobs in the future.