The Privacy Dilemma

The more of our lives that we put online, the less privacy we have. It is as simple as that. And this is a problem that will just get worse over time. You cannot be fully engaged on social networks, blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, FriendFeed, and all the rest without opening yourself up to phishers , scammers , and identity thieves. Something to think about since today is Data Privacy Day . I spoke with Peter Cullen, Microsoft's chief privacy strategist, about some of these issues. People are perhaps more freewheeling than they should be with their private information online, and corporations entrusted with our private data are not fully equipped to protect it. As Cullen put it: Information is not just a currency of value, but a currency of crime.