Privacy Online: Why care about privacy?

Three reasons to care about privacy, from Lisa Ho and Kenneth Goldberg, published in Educause.

Reason #2: Creativity requires time to develop and freedom to take risks.

From the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

Article 12.

"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."

The personal information about you on the Internet can be used against you in many ways, including 

• identity theft
• job and college applications 
• price discrimination
• digital red-lining

Watch this 20 minute Ted Talk by award-winning investigative journalist Glen Greenwald for a critique of the idea that privacy if only important for those with something to hide. 

Glenn Greenwald Ted Talk