Following are additional provocative and thoughtful answers from other respondents, organized in the same format as those in the summary. I am not sure that those adopting this attitude have a very clear sense of just how extensive the data capture, and data analytics, really are, but it is a habit of mind and public opinion that does not suggest that privacy norms will be stronger in 10 years than they are now. Business will not tolerate an Internet without analytics.
Analytics will be the basis of advertising rates. Analytics is too deeply engrained in marketing. Security departments within the governments of all countries will not give up tracking activities of citizens. For most, it will not be a big deal. Clandestine networks will be created. People will create homegrown methods of avoiding scrutiny.
Most people will come up with avatar aliases to do what they do not want associated to themselves. I hope, and expect, that we will not have given up all notions of privacy. Your total privacy is almost gone at this point already. The only thing needed by , or earlier, is for the US government to give IBM the rights to use their new nuclear storage technology to store the masses of data and information they are collecting.
They are almost there. Once you get everyone to throw away their computer and only use their cell phones for everything, you have them and everything about them.
If you never knew you had any privacy rights, why would it be a problem? That is the benefit of retirement and hiring all-new, young people. Working in parallel with the policymakers and technology innovators will be a community whose goal is to subvert any security, liberty, and privacy advancements that are achieved. Stephen Abram , a self-employed consultant with Lighthouse Consulting, Inc. There is actually a market opportunity for these places. Libraries will remain a bastion of private spaces, although their online access and digital content may notβvis a vis the Amazon Kindle libraries offering.
