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Dan Gillmor: Want privacy? Take action If you have to add in the hot-water system later, you'll pay much more and you'll disrupt your family's life during the follow-up construction.
That same logic should apply to privacy and other public values in the digital age. It doesn't apply very often, sorry to say.
Why? Because the businesses building the next generation of digital services are indifferent, if not hostile, to everything but their immediate bottom lines. Governments' agendas, meanwhile, frequently run counter to abstract public wishes that conflict with business demands.