{"id":187,"date":"2007-06-07T06:19:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T06:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=187"},"modified":"2007-06-07T06:19:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T06:19:16","slug":"suddenly-the-paranoids-dont-seem-so-paranoid-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/suddenly-the-paranoids-dont-seem-so-paranoid-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly, the Paranoids Don&#8217;t Seem So Paranoid Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/privacy-policy1.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-187];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/privacy-policy1.jpg','popup','width=227,height=308,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/privacy-policy1-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"73\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Privacy-Policy1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/lifestyle\/commentary\/theluddite\/2007\/06\/luddite_0607\" >Suddenly, the Paranoids Don&#8217;t Seem So Paranoid Anymore<\/a>:<br \/>\nHave you noticed? We&#8217;ve become a people that no longer respects, or apparently desires, privacy. Our own or anybody else&#8217;s.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a remarkable thing, when you stop to think about it. We Americans, historically, have fiercely guarded our personal privacy. It&#8217;s one of our defining characteristics. Others, who live in societies where personal privacy isn&#8217;t so easily taken for granted, have looked on with a mixture of admiration and bemusement. &#8220;Mind your own business&#8221; is a singularly American expression.<br \/>\nBut now we&#8217;ve allowed that birthright to be compromised, in a hundred little ways, and in a few conspicuously big ones, by an increasingly meddlesome government &#8212; not to mention opportunistic, predatory marketers &#8212; armed with the technology that gives them an easy entr\u00c3\u00a9e into our most secret places. Why is that, do you su<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly, the Paranoids Don&#8217;t Seem So Paranoid Anymore: Have you noticed? We&#8217;ve become a people that no longer respects, or apparently desires, privacy. Our own or anybody else&#8217;s. That&#8217;s a remarkable thing, when you stop to think about it. We Americans, historically, have fiercely guarded our personal privacy. It&#8217;s one of our defining characteristics. Others, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/suddenly-the-paranoids-dont-seem-so-paranoid-anymore\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suddenly, the Paranoids Don&#8217;t Seem So Paranoid Anymore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-31","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}