Though privacy may be dying the benefits outweigh the risks

This from tech evangelist and author, Robert Scoble (@scobleizer), speaking to a group in Jerusalem last week.

As reported by David Shamah (@newzgeek) for the Times of Israel, “Privacy may be dead, killed by the modern age of computing, per Scoble, but there is no reason to fear the companies gathering information on us.”

We’ve been living under “surveillance” for awhile now. Banks and other financial institutions have known a lot about us for a long time, and they have been fairly responsible with that information, as have doctors and insurance companies. We’ve trusted credit card companies with a lot of personal data for many years, and they generally have done their best to keep our information safe. For all the reams of data it collects, Google itself has done little more than push ads its algorithms think we may be interested in, which we are free not to click. What we’re seeing now is just an increase in scale of data collected. I think we can trust the marketplace.

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