Is there any hope for privacy left?
I function in several roles that require me to have secrets about what I do online. My contacts, my email, my social networking status, my online status, my searches, and the pages I visit should not be automatically shared with others.
I don’t want my social networking posts or sites I’ve visited to show up in my contacts’ search results.
I don’t want people browsing my social networking profile and people I’ve marked as my friends when they search for me as a contact in gmail.
I never want any service or website anywhere to announce to other users that I am online. Ever.
I want to social network with friends, based on things I choose to post without giving the social network information about what I do outside their site.
I want control over my contact/email information so it isn’t suddenly be covered by new privacy policies without my knowledge or permission.
I want search to give me objective answers for my queries, so I learn and come across new information as I research.
My Skype contacts are different from my outlook contacts are different from my webmail contacts are different from my social networking contacts. ON PURPOSE. The information I use these for is different. ON PURPOSE. Integrating email, search, social and IM is not what I want, but each of these services is growing into all the other parts and there’s no way to stop it… Even trying to start over with new things doesn’t work because all my legacy data is still in these accounts that are being integrated, and I don’t get to say no.
