Jure Cuhalev

We are connected, everywhere, all the time and in strange and different ways. One of the new ways to leak data about your personal lifestyle is the new Dopplr feature to say you’ve been to these places and to rate them. Example of such email is:

Dopplr email screenshot

Now that you actually leave a full trail of your activities, you only have to options:

• go with full transparency and share as much things as you can about your life and your activities
• self-censor yourself everytime you Tweet, Like something on FriendFeed or Share on Google Reader or enter events and ratings in different systems.

It’s suddenly really hard to keep things for yourself or even tell white lies when a number of system can tell on you.

Want to go even more paranoid?

• I didn’t have internet access. - So how come I have new shared items from you in my Google Reader?
• We’re going cheap this year. Sure, I can see that from your sons public Facebook albums pages.
• I didn’t get that email. So who did click on the special tracking url, that just looked like something from bit.ly or tiny url?

Is it really that bad already, is it going to get worse or can we as a society invent new social rules to exist with such level of transparency and accountability in our lives?

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