Privacy

I was reading on TechCrunch (yes, thats one thing I read regularly), and I came across this comment about how being on the Internet implied lack of privacy. I thought it was an interesting thought, and it might actually be true in many cases.

I know a lot of companies out there are working day and night just so that your identity and data is "protected" on the web. Yet, the fact that you open up a browser window and type a url into it, does in some way mean that you might be compromising your data. Your IP is being captured, cookies are being delivered to your machine, and you are being asked to enter data that will continue to sit in some database 10 years from now. What's interesting is that all these things happen so unobstrusively that you hardly think twice about it.

The first few days of Buzz for example, were like that. Everyone wanted to try it out, but no one knew what was actually happening in the background. Google had automatically added certain sources of my information to share with the world, without making it clear to me it would do so.

Gone are the days when privacy meant having your own room.