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Kenneth F. Belva

Privacy Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned

CNN reports:

In a tearful and furious YouTube video with close to 150,000 hits to date, former actress and playwright (”Bonkers”) Tricia Walsh-Smith lashes out against her husband, Philip Smith, president of the Shubert Organization, the largest theater owner on Broadway.

She goes through their wedding album on camera, describing family members as “bad” or “evil” or “nasty,” and talks about how her husband is allegedly trying to evict her from their luxury apartment. She also makes embarrassing claims regarding their intimate life, and then calls his office on camera to repeat those claims to a stunned assistant.

This is reckless behavior. End users will find a way to disclose personal and private information if they believe it suits their purpose. The internet makes it just that much easier to do.

In related “Security in Popular Culture” news, Hollywood director Barry Sonnenfeld who brought such classics as “Men in Black” to the silver screen understands the power and issues of privacy and the internet. MSNBC reports:

Sonnenfeld fears that children today will grow up with “no concept of the right to privacy and in fact not understand the need for it. Because the Facebook generation is not concerned with what people know about them … they will have no problem with additional governmental supervision, spying and intervention. They will be thrilled that the Internet will be able to follow their every move.

That’d be a great theme for a horror film! Facebook zombies under government control attacking the Luddite rebels… I wonder what’s Sonnenfeld’s next film…

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