You have no privacy
Jul 4, 2007 Nuvo-Techno
… when you give it up. Now most of us try to give it up, and still no one notices. You could set up a blog, hang out in chat rooms, unload your deepest, darkest secrets — even good ones — and chances are excellent that absolutely no one will ever care. Just like real life.
But if you’re a U.S. Senator, or have been one for even a few minutes? Man, there is just something about name recognition!
An average U.S. senator looking for a date doesn’t need to do much more than stroll on down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol Grille and take his pick from the cloud of obsequious Washington types and star-struck interns. But Dean Barkley isn’t your average former senator—he was appointed by former Minnesota Governor Jesse “the Body” Ventura to serve a short, two-month spell in the Senate back in 2002. Now fresh off a divorce and a stint running Kinky Friedman’s run for governor in Texas, Barkley is trolling for companionship on Match.com, listing “erotica” as a turn-on and telling the ladies about his love for the “Beatles and Led Zeplin [sic].”
It’s one thing when you don’t have privacy. It’s another thing entirely when you just give it away — and doing so is becoming a habit developed early these days.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Creep comeuppance
Technology, as Dave Price implies in his post below, is changing everything. One of the main ways it is doing so is by affecting, wildly, our privacy. I wrote
July 9th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Creep comeuppance
Technology, as Dave Price implies in his post below, is changing everything. One of the main ways it is doing so is by affecting, wildly, our privacy. I wrote