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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Quantrepreneur]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&gt; Advertisements would transform from a pervasive nuisance into something more like useful information. Advertisers would know so much about your lifestyle and preferences that you would only see ads that made perfect sense for your situation.

People have been saying this since 1999. I still get untargeted ads and Facebook knows everything about me (so does Gmail). Maybe it's because something that will be worked out hasn't been worked out yet, or maybe it's because selling is all about how much someone is willing to pay to try to get my eyeballs and not how &quot;targeted&quot; the ad is towards me. It's NOT because of a lack of data.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Quantrepreneur]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[By the way, what you're imagining sounds very close to the real Singapore.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Quantrepreneur]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[How do you know that criminals wouldn't move to a place with no privacy? If there are no cops (hence no chance of getting caught) then it's no longer a Nash equilibrium to commit zero crimes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from shagbark]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The problem with DNA privacy is that you can't opt out of it.  Government regulations stipulate the privacy measures that must be applied to genetic data, whether the person wants it or not.

We have spent $40 million dollars of tax money gathering DNA sequences that are not of much use to use, because we don't know the phenotypes of the people they came from, because of &quot;privacy&quot; issues.  The people involved were not allowed to opt out of privacy and provide their data!

Similarly, 23andme.com gathers genetic information on many people, and does their own experiments with that data; but they won't provide the data to anyone else.  When you sign up with them, you give them permission to use their data.  But there's no way to say, &quot;I want you to give other people my data too.&quot;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Cellar]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott, you're wrong. Not politician with no clue wrong, but engineer with an oversized idea stuck in his head wrong. You're attributing to lack of privacy posive benefits that aren't intrinsically connected to that.

I started to write a long point-for-point rebuttal, but instead I'll start the counter from principles and leave the detailed consequences as an excercise.

We made privacy a right because it is a freedom that grants us protection.

And we need that protection because people with unchecked power inevitably abuse that power. You're stripping away the first line of defence against that, and aren't strengthening what's left, nor are you providing for redress or even ways to seek it.

Your thought experiment might, possibly, in a perfect world, work that way for a while. But as soon as it goes awry, it'll go bad big. The only way out is to get out of noprivacyville; lose all friends and family and rebuild elsewhere.

And the thing is, most of the things you cite as benefits can be had without loss of privacy. So the price you're paying is excessive from the start, and runs a big systemic risk of becoming unbearable.

Plenty of people feel that in their gut. Plenty others don't. They still say &quot;but surely you have nothing to hide?&quot; or even the more insidious &quot;but *I* don't have anything to hide!&quot;. They, too, are dead wrong. But the thing is, loss of privacy only starts to hurt when it's far too late to do anything about it. Once the genie is out of the bottle, there's no putting it back. If information is out on the streets, or in gigantic stasi-like data warehouses, then what?

Do you really want to live a life like the dark side of being a celebrity where the paparazzi are the upholders of the law and without the fringe benefits? I don't. I don't even believe it'll be cheaper. The crime might drop, then grow far more insiduous, possibly down to not being detected. Is that really &quot;safer&quot;, or is that just an eggregious example of deluding yourself?
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from GLK]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The lure of money savings in exchange for something precious is always a ruse. Economies always find a set point which is the point at which the price of everything needed to live a comfortable life is just barely affordable to most people. In time the economy in your brave new world will reset and the cost savings your speaking of will be out the window. That, and you'll have no freedom. No thanks.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from esosagt]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The only part I dislike is about having a chip in my body...I guess it is unnecessary. Noprivacyville may have as many video cameras as needed everywhere and everyone may be identified with optical retina recognition or something like that, like in Tom Cruise's movie &quot;Minority report&quot;.

Some posts are worried about politicians or government not having the same no-privacy as everyone, however, as I understood the original post, absolutely everybody living on that city has no-privacy at all.

I guess even the bathroom and the bedroom should be no-private, and have AI technology to blur whatever has to be hidden and not allow that piece of information to everybody but to criminal investigation or something like that.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Leora]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hasn't the USA already traded personal privacy for the illusion of safety?  Maybe not to the extent you describe here, but certainly people seemed generally willing to give up their freedom from unreasonable searches and detainment and a whole bunch of other previously-sacred freedoms if only the government would save them from terrorists.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from fledder]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;Because you opt-in to location aware apps, numerous companies already know where you are at all times. Because you use gMail, Google knows what you talk about. Because you agreed to Facebook's TOS, most of what you chat about with friends is known to, well, any developer who uses their API.&quot;

The difference is that it is not enforced. I'm not on Facebook and if I would, I would not use it for personal conversations. I did not opt-in to any map. I can chose what to expose to the public, the model that Scott talks about does not leave that choice, other than leaving the city.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from wiinkme]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Because you opt-in to location aware apps, numerous companies already know where you are at all times.  Because you use gMail, Google knows what you talk about.  Because you agreed to Facebook's TOS, most of what you chat about with friends is known to, well, any developer who uses their API. 

As a society, we've already taken the first steps towards this city. And no one seems to care.  I don't. On the surface I'm annoyed that I post a Facebook update and 10 seconds later I see a gmail add relating to the exact subject I was posting about.  Then again, I would rather see an add so highly targeted than one that has no relevance to my life.  Those who !$%*! about this city might as well move to the wilderness and be-friend the bears.  This is the future.  Hell, it's practically the present.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tovarish]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[oooh oooh this new noprivacyville sounds so cool to me where can i sign up. bwahahahaha. First I will run for mayor. then with all the wealth of information on everyone i will start manipulating opinions. eg. since i know some citizens like being hugged my workers will hug them before asking them to do something they normally wouldnt do. slowly the whole population will turn into my sheep ready for slaughter.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from MovingTarget]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I think my favorite line is, &quot;But I'll bet employers would learn...&quot; I laughed and thought to myself, &quot;I wonder if this guy's ever read Dilbert...&quot;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Davidbrin]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alas, Scott is being simplistic here.

1. His model ignores the power of sousveillance (the power to see from below) to counter the oppressive effects of surveillance ((being observed from above.)  We rightfully fear the latter.  We tend to forget that the former has been key to the enlightenment for 250 years.

In his city, if EVERYONE can see, the lack of crime will include lack of oppression from above.  Authorities may be able to see you (you won't prevent that anyway; show me how)... but they can't DO anything to you without it being seen by all.  That means you can say whatever you like and that is the core essence of freedom.

2. Scott weights the argument by allowing us only the bedroom and bathroom. But legally, your &quot;curtilage&quot; includes your whole house.

3. Now here's the strange thing that I talk about in The Transparent Society. In restaurants, people can lean in to eavesdrop, but they don't.... because they'll get caught doing so and it is shameful.  In NOPRIVACYVILLE... guess what?  People, human beings, will want a bit of privacy and will mostly get it!  Because peeping toms will be CAUGHT spying on their neighbors. (Remember you can see them too, as in a restaurant.) And you can tell on the putzy little voyeur. You can tell his MOM! And people will use this power to make others back out of their personal space.

Work it out. We already do this - using two way visibility to make others back off and not stare... when you are minding your own business.  It works in our world.  It will work in a world where we all can see much better.

For more see The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?   (It won the Freedom Of Speech Award of the American Library Association.)  WHen you do, look especially at page 206!

Here's to a confident civilization

 With cordial regards,

David Brin
http://www.davidbrin.com
Hugo winning author of THE POSTMAN, and EARTH]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from flawsophy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The whole premise of noprivacyville rests on a  false assumption that somehow more information =&gt; better decisions. 

You think a doc or an employer can make a better decision on just because he knows my life inside out ... helloooooo ... we are dealing with an irrational human brain ... something you wrote on it yourself ...

i agree, if the wiring of the brain can change to make decisions and to handle enormous amount of data that results from no-privacy ... then, may be, we will save money ... else .... we will gossip more, for sure ... 


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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from jnadke]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kinda like the book &quot;The Light of Other Days&quot;.

The basic premise is that, after time travel is invented, privacy is eliminated because anyone can view any other persons past actions.

Religion also takes a hit, as people research whether some stuff actually happened.

And Politics disappears completely.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from bwcbwc]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I would be willing to live in &quot;Noprivacyville&quot; if the same transparency applied to public figures, the government and businesses. i.e., all the !$%*!$%* in the community, not just the individuals.

Privacy is kind of like the nudity taboo. If everyone is naked, it becomes the norm. If individuals are naked in daily life but the politicians and companies walk around with their clothing on, so to speak, it just won't work.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from ChinnoDog]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To the people who think that the car insurance companies are going to use the information as an excuse to jack up your rates to unreasonable numbers, I don't think you fully grasp the implications of this scenario.  Lets say that Insurance Company A thinks they can make unreasonable demands because you went through a stop sign last month.  By &quot;unreasonable&quot; I mean that they are demanding payment of a fee that pads their profit margin significantly.  As soon as this happens, Insurance Company B, who has access to all of the same information as well as the fact that Insurance Company A thinks highway robbery is OK, can offer you a rate slightly less than highway robbery.  Eventually, Insurance Company N is going to be willing to earn just enough to make you worth their time.  Conversely, Insurance Company X may make you a deal that is too good to be true, and you will know because their numbers will show they may not be able to pay a claim if you make one.  So, not only can they not overcharge you, you would have to be sure that you are paying enough!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from notmyrealname]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Count me in!  I cant wait for this place to open.

'Course, I wont have one of them chip things or be a participant in the neo-hippy commune you describe.  I'll be one of the many criminal elements that will come to your city to prey on its naive and idiotic inhabitants.  The others and I will sneak in through the trash trucks, the food trucks, the repair guy trucks, by digging tunnels under the wall and the moat or even dropping in with a parachute.  You're a fool if you think you can prevent my type from entering your city.  After all, who do you expect to mow the lawn, pick up the garbage or cook in your restaurants.  You think the US has a problem with illegal immigration?  You aint seen nothin' yet.

Once in your city, we'll pilfer identity information and profile your citizens via their own activities.  We'll use both tried and true schemes to defraud your citizens and businesses, as well as invent new ways.  With the kind of data you're going to make available we'll have a whole host of new opportunities.  It'll make stealing from a bank even more trivial than it already is.

So, please, please, please do make this place and be sure to advertise well so that lots of people with lots of money decide to move there.  The more victims, the more money, the more incentive, the more crime, the mo' betta'.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from harmless]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I would not live in Noprivacyville. I am completely open to having every aspect of my life public, but only public to those who reciprocate. 

I would love Noprivacynation though. Not only a city but an entire autonomous state where all the public people are only accountable to other public people and they work together to have joint privacy from all the other non-transparent states.

However, we don't get to choose. No matter what we want, surveillance tech is going to get so good that you cannot keep anything to yourself.  Smaller, easier to hide. even mobile--that hummingbird robot is going to be a fruit fly robot in no time. So some people, people with resources or fiat or both are going to be able to know pretty much anything about anyone.

Either some people can see what everyone is doing or all people can see what everyone is doing. There is no option of privacy. Really good book that I'm surprised no one has mentioned in this thread is &quot;The Transparent Society&quot; by David Brin where he makes the argument I presented in the preceding paragraph in much more detail.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from chode]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have a compromise most people would agree with.

Individuals retain their privacy and we eliminate privacy for people in positions of public trust;
All government employees, elected, appointed, and hired.  This would include all law enforcement officers and court officials.
All officers and board members of public corporations.

These individuals are given special powers and privileges and use of public resources.  It stands to reason they would have to give up something or else they will inevitably become corrupt (exactly like things are now).]]></description>
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