{"id":5889,"date":"2008-11-30T23:01:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T06:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2008-12-07T10:46:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T17:46:20","slug":"privacy-is-an-artifact-of-inefficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5889\/privacy-is-an-artifact-of-inefficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"“Privacy\u00a0is an artifact of inefficiency”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I say that just about every time I speak in public, and people always ask me to repeat it, and they inscribe it carefully into their notes.<\/p>\n

It’s a simple enough idea: What you’ve thought of all your life as privacy has simply been a function of inefficient data processing tools. The more efficacious the means of acquiring and storing data become, the less privacy — unintentional ignorance by others of observable facts — you will have.<\/p>\n

If you find this idea repellent — dang…<\/p>\n

It is what it is, and it’s absurd to rebel against it. We are real, physical entities. Our purposive actions sometimes have secondary physical consequences that are potentially observable to other people — and to data acquisition devices. Your best hope of achieving privacy, going forward, is to expire. Short of that, you might try to exist in some sort of extra-physical way. And short of that, you might try doing everything you do where no one — and nothing — else can observe you. And short of all that, swallow hard and prepare to have every fact of your life known, at least potentially, by anyone or everyone else.<\/p>\n

This does not bother me at all. I deliberately lead a hugely public life. I’m not showy, I hope, but I never want for someone to be able to say something truthful about me that I have not said first myself. I try to lead a very moral life, but no one is perfect. But what I don’t want, ever, is to give the impression that I am trying to hide my imperfections. (Disclosure: I caused a car accident earlier this evening. No one was hurt, but the front end of my car was smacked up pretty good.)<\/p>\n

(People who send me email will have grown used to me replying with multiple names in the CC line. I’m never trying to hide facts about my life, but, I am normally trying very hard to not-hide those facts.)<\/p>\n

Another thing I say in speeches is that the world is becoming more and more the realm I would have imagined for myself. Mostly the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I say that just about every time I speak in public, and people always ask me to repeat it, and they inscribe it carefully into their notes. It’s a simple enough idea: What you’ve thought of all your life as privacy has simply been a function of inefficient data processing tools. 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