What does a worldview lacking an expectation of privacy mean for the rest of society?

The sense of being entitled to privacy has been devalued. And our children will never have known a world without this sort of exposure. What does a worldview lacking an expectation of privacy mean for the rest of society?
The founders of our Constitution could not have imagined a democracy in which our physical movements are tracked by cell phones, our personal correspondence is scanned for key words by corporations and we willingly surrender our reading lists and fleeting private thoughts. It’s an arrangement we’ve made not just for ourselves but for our children, as well. When many parents are confronted about what it means to raise children in an era of greatly diminished privacy, the most common responses are: I really have nothing to hide, and who would be interested in my life, anyway? But these rationalizations miss the point, because privacy is one of those nebulous rights that don’t matter until it matters. Who worries about Miranda rights until an arrest?
We are living in an era in which every keystroke online, from the information you search for to videos you watch to things you consider buying, is collected, stored, archived, aggregated and potentially shared or sold. And regardless of the false sense of security offered by the key on the upper right corner of your keyboard, there is no delete key for the Internet. Once it’s out there, it’s probably out there forever.
There is a spectrum, of course, of parental behavior toward their children’s private lives, from those who sequester and smother their children in a misguided attempt to protect them to those who exploit and commercialize on the largest stages available. But never before have parents had the ability to publish the details of their children’s lives in such a widespread manner. A potentially embarrassing anecdote won’t faze a toddler, but how does the unilateral flow of information affect a tween or teenager?
Recently, a new set of proposed changes to Facebook’s privacy policy was revealed. They include giving users more access to the data collected about them and attempts to explain how the company tracks them. But the changes would also allow Facebook to keep certain information longer along with possibly targeting users with ads across the web, not just on the Facebook site. So, the valuable marketing information gleaned from pictures, posts and “likes” is not contained just to Facebook but used throughout the Web.
More than 900 million of us (and counting) willingly participate in this exchange of information for convenience and connection. But we implicate more than ourselves in the transaction.
We have a right for our data to not rise up and destroy us. We have a right to create our own narrative about our lives. We have a right to control how much we want the world to know about us. These are fundamental to our personal autonomy. Our children deserve the same protections.

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