Red Coat, Black Coat & Privacy

Over on sense.psfk is a write up of my notes I prepared for an appearance on the BBC World Service show Culture Shock about the state of privacy (Monday Oct 9 2006). Some of this is based on PSFK.com reader comments left here. This article includes my first version of Red Coat, Black Coat – a story I hope to develop with help from feedback to describe the options we have regarding a privacy-free future. Here’s an extract:

We can’t wear black coats anymore. Steve is looking for his 15 minutes of oblivion and it’s futile – whether he likes it or not. He needs to take action – he needs to understand what’s known about him and take action. He needs to present himself in a new coat a coat that says something about him… Jill with her red coat knows that we have already lost privacy. We lost privacy when we adopted the web en-masse and when we started walking around with telephones. Many people feel that technology is going to create Orwellian scenarios – but it’s won’t.

sense.PSFK: Privacy: Red Coat, Black Coat

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