[extropy-chat] privacy rights

[Keith Henson]

At 01:02 AM 5/14/2006 +0200, Anders Sandberg, wrote:
>[Hi, by the way!]

Hi Anders, appreciate the work you have done.  Say hi to Nick and Julian 
for me.

>I'm going to do a lecture on RFID tags in Sweden May 23, debating with the
>Swedish privacy right debater Pär Ström
>(http://www.atomerochbitar.se/english/), so this discussion is gefundenes
>fressen.

snip

>Most of the privacy abuses we worry about come from two directions.
>Concentrations of power like corporations and state, and people in our
>close social network. We can use laws and politics against the first,
>enforcing transparency, accountability and maybe paying back externalities
>of privacy loss. The second group is much trickier, because no law can
>protect you from the scorn of your sister or a disapproving mother. And I
>think most of the privacy debate has been so obsessed with one's favorite
>power concentration that we have missed the very real chilling effects of
>creating a transparent village.

I think it is worth considering the evolutionary reasons humans value 
privacy and why taking it away as in prisons is such a punishment.

The usual EP rules discussed in my recent post "Emotion connected memes and 
EP" apply.

Any thoughts?

Keith Henson

PS

"My contention, simply put, is that the evolutionary approach is the only 
approach in the social and behavioral sciences that deals with why, in an 
ultimate sense, people behave as they do. As such, it often unmasks the 
universal hypocrisies of our species, peering behind self-serving notions 
about our moral and social values to reveal the darker side of human 
nature." (Silverman 2003)