Man experiments with surfing anonymous on the internet. He finds it is not all it is cracked up to be.
Digg.com posts, “It makes some of us nervous that Google and other Web companies are building huge collections of data about our surfing habits. But doing something about it means dealing with a lot more inconvenience than most of us are willing to abide by. That is what I learned in my week of trying to be invisible, at least online.”
It looks like we as a whole do not mind giving up personal information for convenience. For example, we like store coupons, we like web content delivered to our preferences, we like product recommendations based on what we have bought in the past, and we like to be automatically logged into sites all the time.
It looks like for many of us it is not privacy that we are concerned with, but control over how our personal information is shared with others. As the article says, if we are “really that paranoid, then they ought to be like Ted Kaczynski, living in Montana someplace.”