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Comment Why should Internet be different to real world? (Score 1) 591

In real world you have an identity and if necessary the police can locate you to make you accountable for your actions. Why should this be different in the Internet? Why can't we find a way to make people accountable for their actions in the Internet? The communications should be private, most actions should be private, but identities should not. In real world if I have private meetings with people regarding political discussions, for instance, the information in the meeting is private, the gathering may be private, but my identity is not, everyone knows who I am or at least knows my face and probably my name.

Comment Targeted advertisments in the streets (Score 1) 187

With this kind of information it is possible that, one day, the streets will have advertisements that change after they identify the person that looks at it, using facial recognition.
And this is the most harmless application I can think of.There are many others which are must less benign.
This will be the last step of the this trend in which we loose completly our privacy.

Comment Why do we need to have secrets? (Score 1) 200

Lets assume that it is possible to have instant knowledge about anything or anybody. Lets also assume that it's impossible for someone to hide. Then, the society would be very, very, different. We would behave differently, we would avoid doing stuff that we don't want others to know, some things we do right now in privacy would become normal and public.
In this situation, no one would have a special power over the other due to information. People with power would become a focus of attention and would need to be more careful, people without power would need to be careful as they could be watched by anyone...
Our lives would be very different. Could it be better? Maybe, who knows how well we would adapt.
But, BTW, why do we need to have secrets? Why?

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