the Internet is forever...
Jul. 2nd, 2012 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psybelleThere's a remarkable and creepy story in the NYTimes about "posture photos" that may well be a lesson for our times as far as privacy issues go.
Nude photos may not be a big deal to the majority of the under-30 crowd. But everybody has "youthful indiscretions", things that an individual may wish had been done differently even if the event is not overtly shame-inducing after the fact. And I can see the equivalences between those photos (still not dead after 50+ years, even though photos and negatives can be destroyed) and records of txts and emails and browsing history, idle searches and shopping history and f*c*book indiscretions, which can be copied and stored indefinitely and covertly, without any sort of "paper trail" to follow back or recourse for hacked accounts (or simply maturing).
Somebody who is a better writer than I am needs to tackle this, explore the resonances and parallels, pull the definition of "privacy" into the 21st century, into the age of networked everything and data whose only "home" is the cloud.
Nude photos may not be a big deal to the majority of the under-30 crowd. But everybody has "youthful indiscretions", things that an individual may wish had been done differently even if the event is not overtly shame-inducing after the fact. And I can see the equivalences between those photos (still not dead after 50+ years, even though photos and negatives can be destroyed) and records of txts and emails and browsing history, idle searches and shopping history and f*c*book indiscretions, which can be copied and stored indefinitely and covertly, without any sort of "paper trail" to follow back or recourse for hacked accounts (or simply maturing).
Somebody who is a better writer than I am needs to tackle this, explore the resonances and parallels, pull the definition of "privacy" into the 21st century, into the age of networked everything and data whose only "home" is the cloud.