Knowing When to Say No
I wrote a post recently about the Faustian bargains we must make when offered something price-free but with contingencies. In this case I was talking about our choice in operating systems and browsers. Specifically I wrote about my own struggle balancing privacy against the attractions in Google’s new Chrome operating system and browser.
Pitifully few people actually read the post. I’ll take the blame for that. It had a weak title (Playing with Google Chromium OS) and an even weaker hook in the excerpt.
I’d like a second try. Except for a new title and this excerpt, the current post is identical to the one I published last week.
I thought that George Siemens used an appropriate degree of alarm when he said recently in his post Privacy that “it looks like we are just at the beginning stages of privacy obliteration.”
Privacy is a right, regardless of whether people are willing to pawn it off. In these early days of the Internet, companies should not be permitted to finese the right to privacy toward obliteration.
Tags: Chrome OS
Commentary, Query Tools | Gary Lewis, February 1, 2010 9:46 am | 
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