We seem so surprised that our privacy can be compromised.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I have never understood why people post the most intimate things on the Internet.

Especially Facebook, which kind of horrifies me - their "privacy" controls are pretty minimal, and anybody you "friend" can learn whatever personal details you put on your page. And your 300 "friends" aren't necessarily your friends. I opened a Facebook account so I could communicate regarding a specific situation (a person I knew who went missing) but after reading some of the stuff other people put on their pages I declined to add anything to mine.

We surrender a lot of personal information - some of it voluntary, some not - just by using the Internet and related electronic devices. Unfortunately, unless we want to go off the grid entirely, Pandora's box with our personal stuff in it is open; the cat is out of the bag; whatever metaphor you like. I don't like it but I don't know what to do about it, because the technology exists to do these things and therefore it will be used, by governments for power and by private entities for profit.