If everything you do is identified with you, Everything can be used to pressure you to conform with someone else's sense of normal.

Think back a couple of years. A young woman expressed her indecision about accepting a “fatty” job with Cisco Systems. Her comment wasn't private, so it got out to the world–and then her anonymity was breached. She was hounded and called names for expressing her view that she wasn't sure she wanted to work for a major tech company. Now imagine Facebook linking her comment on a Cisco-related “like” page with her full name. Her “friends” and others who were linked to the Cisco page then see her comment on any Cisco-related site.

De-anonymizing is repression. It is the first step toward dictatorship. Maybe not the kind that the Europeans had (e.g., far right or far left using force or the threat thereof to control people). More likely something akin to China, where tremendous social pressure is used to keep people in line, with force being the last option.

By the way, lnxwalt is a more targeted identifier than my first and last names. There are at least two other people with my name in Google searches, but so far, I'm the only lnxwalt that shows up.

There are two very different components to identity. The first is where you come from. This is information like your name, your date of birth, your place of birth, your address, your ethnic background, your national citizenship, and your relatives. The second is who you see yourself as, which is often expressed in nicknames, online handles, the activities you participate in, and the people and groups you form relationships with. The two kinds of identity require different forms of protection. Often, the key to free expression is the ability to keep data of one type from becoming associated with data of the second type. Hence the necessity for anonymity.

I'm confused. You dedicate almost this entire post to the theme “the death of privacy is good so that we get these new features” (paraphrase) and then go and say essentially what the privacy advocates are saying in summary point #3:

“We need more control over our data so that we can easily figure out what is going where. With Facebook it’s hard to figure that out now (I solved that by just making everything I do public, but others don’t want to live the same way I do).”

That's all (most) people want. They want to decide whether their FB friends know that they listen to Kenny G on Pandora. They want to decide if their accounts are linked or not.They want to opt in not be forced to figure out how to opt out.

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