Why is privacy important?
A vocal minority always claims that one must be doing something wrong if he prefers to remain anonymous. That’s most often not the case and it troubles me when people employ such reasoning. There will always be those who abuse certain privileges or liberties, but those few cannot ruin an entitlement for the rest. There are many factors why privacy is important. First there are repressive governments that forbid access to certain sites, censor the internet, and then track users who show interest in particular topics. There are people who want to tell the truth without fear of repercussion, such as corporate whistleblowers and bloggers. There are intelligence needs, in both corporate and government sectors. But most importantly, we live in an age where our names, social security numbers, phone numbers, dates of birth, buying habits, credit reports, demographics and surfing tendencies are traded like commodities amongst big companies. We all knew this day was coming, the information age h
