> or pull a high-level contact from some company we've been privately looking to acquire, you best pray that theft doesn't result in a leak of privileged business information.
Right, because the presence of some contacts at company B immediately implies "oh, we're going to acquire them."
What people really aren't mentioning is that people give out the information likely stored in your address book to pretty much any service that even looks to be interesting based on a screencast, or even a splash page. Do you read the terms of service and privacy policies of all random websites you sign up for? Do the people whose contact information you are protecting do so?
> It is possible that the internet has gotten so public that we should all just stop worrying about privacy.
It's notable that the core of Facebook's pitch, to users as well as investors, is "we should all just stop worrying about privacy", or perhaps "everyone you know has stopped worrying about privacy, so you should too."
So rather than a radical view, it's actually become an authoritative statement driving the fact that "the internet has gotten so public"! An elegant hack, really.
Right, because the presence of some contacts at company B immediately implies "oh, we're going to acquire them."
What people really aren't mentioning is that people give out the information likely stored in your address book to pretty much any service that even looks to be interesting based on a screencast, or even a splash page. Do you read the terms of service and privacy policies of all random websites you sign up for? Do the people whose contact information you are protecting do so?