Comments on: I’ve Got Nothing to Hide

By: andrewferrier

andrewferrier — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:33:42 +0000

Good point. I’m not sure that your credit card number has the same power though: after all, it’s just arbitrary. The only reason we protect it is to stop others spending our money. The reason I protect my salary is different - it says something about my worth, there’s the whole boasting/modesty thing at work, plus it doesn’t make rational sense for me to disclose it if my colleagues don’t. I think salary opens out some more complex personal privacy issues.

By: Anton Piatek

Anton Piatek — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:14:47 +0000

It is a good agument, though I would have said put your credit card number up and then you will understand privacy better… In theory, only you can use it, but in practice it is not hard to use somebody elses credit card.

By: Richard G Brown

Richard G Brown — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:48:59 +0000

Sooooo tempted……. And then I realised that I could do without the emails of commiseration from my contemporaries and colleagues