The Myth of Privacy

At the risk of sounding over simplistic (or out of context) I'll assert that privacy on the internet is a myth. Average citizens on the World Wide Web neither comprehend the amount of data other individuals can access about them, nor the major companies and government bodies with access to it.

I agree with Lawrence Lessig's analysis (video below) that efforts to redefine online identity, ID 2.0, present interesting and complex opportunities. Who stores what data about you should be the focus of the discussion, we're past debating if the data will  or won't exist in public.