I think the further we move into the 21st century the less we can worry about a concept such as privacy. The fact is - it is disappearing and there is nothing anyone can really do about it.

You have to consider any activity you undertake on a computer is not a private action and can be traced to you, and these records will only keep growing over the course of your life. The only way to avoid this is to always use computers in internet cafes - and then, never log into any accounts you may have on the Internet! Which basically makes it very hard to get anything done!

Although you can still conduct research of all types online completely anonymously (as long as you're using a computer at a public location or internet cafe), there's not much else you can do without it being traced back and linked to you - and nor should you expect that anything else you do will not be traced back to you. I'm certainly well aware of this when doing things online, but it seems the younger generation often doesn't consider this when ranting about things on forums/myspace pages or via email from the personal account etc.

It does amaze me how naive people are when it comes to this sort of thing really.

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