Privacy vs. Transparency
Bambi Francisco wrote today about something I've been discussing with a friend I made from my Connect article. We talk about transparency and how it will affect our religion, business, and how we view life. In many ways, I love the benefits of transparency and how it can help expose injustice, fraud, or incompetency. I'm pretty transparent in my approach to life (thanks to a hippie heart that can be fairly open source).
She writes about how blogging, community sites, and the generation that embraces it is changing our culture. For the most part, it's good. We choose to do it because of the benefits of connection. It does have implications and it will change how we approach life. I love being part of these changes. I think we'll figure out how to minimize the negative implications.
Men can troll chat rooms and prey on children, which is horrible. At the same time it's easy to look up every sex offender in our community. I think we'll begin to solve these problems because we can pinpoint and track things more precisely. I believe we'll adjust our approach (like providing privacy locks for children on the internet, like we do for TV) and minimize the bad.
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April 11th, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Great post. Indeed, technologically produced transparency is causing an uncomfortable shake-up inside institutions and felt by individuals that have heretofore been less accountable for their actions. Those with things to hide, or holding position by title or name authority only (as opposed to moral authority), or those arbitrarily or subjectively placed in markets without accompanying value, may find transparency considerably disturbing.