Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review) [LWN.net]

Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review)

Posted Jun 8, 2012 14:25 UTC (Fri) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review) by danielpf
Parent article: Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review)

>>realize that many people like keeping secrets, and I will not force my, evidently debatable, ideology upon them.

>could you please disclose all your bank account coordinates, passwords etc. so that everybody on this list can have a look at transactions ?

If any of those transactions involve natural persons, then allowing third parties to peruse the account history would be a violation of those natural persons' privacy.

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Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review)

Posted Jun 8, 2012 15:37 UTC (Fri) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]

Actually I know a person who had for about one year posted his bank statements online. You could donate money to him, and it would show up on the public statement next months. Was his way to incentivize people to donate money to his project. Cool, but very weird and intrusive.