Cell Phones, Privacy, and Technological Voyuerism

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I stumbled upon this article today at the Wired site about how cell phones can be used to predict behaviors. I'm fascinated about the ways in which technologies can make us anonymous and at the same time lay bare the presumed privacy of our daily lives.

Beyond this article I think about our concern for privacy and the growing legislation here and abroad about protecting our personal information. Yet it's amazing the facts we leave about ourselves voluntarily that gets automatically catalogued and indexed by google and other search engins.

Reality TV has made voyuerism commonplace, as exhibitionsits clamour for their moments of fame. We say to ourselves, we'd never do that - but in a way we do it with every post to a message board. There are things we do that we want people to witness, and those we'd rather do with stealth, and yet they all seem to be recorded and witnessed by our technology, waiting to be retrieved.