If there was a gun to my head, I still could not reveal or break the privacy of my users.

Going forward, [privacy] will be one of the most important issues this century. The next five years will be the deciding factor.

Like all freedom, this can be abused or used for good, ... we don't outlaw cars because people sometime have accidents in them.

You could go to a store, buy an MP3, pay with e-cash and walk away, ... And you might do that under your music-listening pseudonym. That way, they can give you great referrals, but they don't know who you are.

You could go to a store, buy an MP3, pay with e-cash and walk away. And you might do that under your music-listening pseudonym. That way, they can give you great referrals, but they don't know who you are.

You can have separate identities for the separate parts of your life. For example, you can have a health-care identity that you use to discuss your health care problems, and a separate identity that you use to apply for health insurance, which is your true identity. But now, those two identities are separated.