In case you haven't guessed, I'm a technology junkie. I'm a big fan of a lot that technology can do for us. But I have a huge concern about one major consequence of many new technologies and that's the erosion of our privacy.
I expect I'll write a lot more about this in future posts. But before doing so I wanted to make two points.
First, the irony of writing about loss of privacy on a blog is not lost on me. The privacy issue is one reason I've stayed away from blogging as long as I have. When I decided to take the plunge my co-worker, James, who is well aware of my feelings on this front, wrote "Welcome to the dark side. Privacy is overated". We'll see about that.
Second, I do not come to my views about loss of privacy lightly. Thirty years ago the boyfriend of a housemate at the time sat at my dining room table spouting what seemed like paranoid nonsense about privacy and banking. I was never very fond of this person, and took pleasure in arguing the issue with him. And so it pains me greatly to find myself now on the same side of the privacy debate as him.
Believe me, if I could still convince myself that there was nothing to be concerned about, I would.
