Do you know what your great-great grandfather did for a living?
How much do you know about your ancestors?
If your Facebook account is left standing after you die, will it leave more information to your
progeny than your ancestors left to you?
What happens to the collection of pictures that you have on Picasa, Flickr, Facebook, etc.?
How about your avatars? Have you composed movies on xtranormal.com? Who will own them
after you die?
Does your will contain the names of the person or people who will inherit your passwords? Did
you leave your Facebook Password to your children or a close friend? Would your parents
want to know it or would they even know what to do with it?
Do you want your email accounts destroyed or preserved so that anthropologist of the future
can study them?
Famous people have often had their lives revealed in collections of their letters. Will modern
technology do the same thing for everybody?
Part 2:
You should notice that younger people are less into privacy than older people. The same with
younger institutions and older institutions, if you speak generally.
Older people and older institutions are into privacy more than young people. Hence you find
the ACLU is against cameras in Chicago even though they have assisted in capturing 4500
criminals.
http://prevent-theft.com/2011/02/09/in-report-aclu-claims-chicagos-surveillance-cameras-violat
e-privacy-npr-blog/
I was listening to an NPR interview with someone who was very against the cameras. And when
asked if Chicago had misused any information, his answer began with 'No, but..."
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