The most obvious example of how these technologies can be used to limit privacy is that a simple network of cheap cameras can even today give full information of any person’s exact location at any given time he is present in the covered area. Add the ability to see through walls (e.g. http://www.poc.com/emerging_products/lexid/default.asp ) and the whole concept of “privacy” goes more or less down the toilet.

Personally I think there is no escape. Society will simply have to re-adjust to this somehow…

I thought about this further and I realized that Google, for example, has a content detection mechanism that identifies content even if it’s just playing in the background of a video (by creating a type of signature of the original and comparing to signatures in the video.)

Maybe someday you could be able to have specific content erased even if there are pirated copies of it (e.g. copies that are screen captures). Or at least prevent it from appearing in searches.

Six Ohio state senators have introduced a bill that would compel media organizations to erase stories from the Internet about former convicts whose case records are sealed by the courts.

And I do enjoy the cloud services I’m getting for free, but anyway my intention was that I don’t mind giving up my privacy as long as I know I can have it back sometime in the future, when I feel the price of losing my privacy is too much for what I’m getting in return.

hubbub.at looks interesting, but I stopped participating on Facebook a long time ago, and I don’t intend to go on another social network for now (I do have a blog :)

a. Stop using any central (i.e. “cloud”) services. e.g. Instead of Gmail – run your own MTA.

b. Stop exposing your identity while browsing. You will need to completely disable cookies and such, and use an anonymising network such as Tor.

c. For social networking: Use something like http://hubbub.at/ . This will, of course, not really work, because everyone else is on FB, but if enough people make the switch, maybe someday…