Privacy and Technology

This article talks about how privacy avocates are worried about a new feature GM wants to install vehicle tracking hardware on new vehicles. The drivers have to choose to want this service and pay a monthly fee. But the privacy people are saying it could invade the car owners privacy! Good god! They have to WANT it. If you ask for it, its not an invasion of your privacy! Ugh!

I responded thusly:

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"So what? Let's face it kids, we are gonna all be trackable in one way or another in our lifetimes. Advocates and bitch and moan about it all day long, but it's not going to stop anything. It's a side effect of our technological progress. Don't like it, go live in the third world where you can go hide in a cave if you want.

Privacy is not a human trait. We are tribe creatures by nature. Very few tribes through out history have had much privacy. It's normal behavior for humans to give up privacy for tribe and individual benifits.

The real problem is not the devices that potentially reduce privacy but the ability of the individual to police who has access to the information. If you are going to argue for privacy, argue for/against the real problem. "

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These zealots need to think about what they are saying before they say it. Privacy will drop to nil as our planetary population increases. As it increases there will be more and more need for tracking, for better or worse. Welcome to the 21st century!