Thanks to the fact that I work at a very conservative company, appreciate my job, fear losing it if I say the wrong thing “online”, I’ve been hyper aware of what I share online. In fact, so fearful that I’ve blogged as my alter ego and bellydance stage persona @dreadfullfufu for 3 years before I made a quiet announcement that I am indeed the same person. I haven’t heard anything at work about it, but I’ve grown tired of living two lives. Nonetheless, I still make every attempt to protect my own privacy and educate others on how they too can protect theirs.

I expect we’re going to see many, many restrictions come in place when it comes to user privacy, despite the fact that public records, as you so eloquently stated, have violated privacy for years. Our society continues to believe in the theme that, “I’m not responsible for my actions, so Big Business or Products must take responsibility for me.” Which I think is part crap and part true. We who develop or manage products must make user privacy features and education a natural and intuitive part of our designs. I believe this will begin to fall into a similarly regulated category as Mr. LaHood is pushing to make Driving-While-Texting (DWT) and cell phone use while driving.

Thanks again. I look forward to reading more of your thoughts on user privacy.