LukasRos' Blog

I saw this quote from Gabriel García Márquez circulating on Twitter and it made me think about privacy on the Internet. The current trend seems to push the private and even the secret life towards the public life. Stowe Boyd, who also quotes him on his blog /message, says that “the basis of future web culture and the social tools that enable it to exist will be publicy, not privacy or secrecy.” While this may be true and openness and transparency is a good thing, there needs to be a place for privacy and secrecy on the Internet as well and technology has to support users towards this goal. I will have to blog about it once.