Questions regarding the Future of Privacy

1. What is the global understanding of privacy? 2. What laws are in place to control privacy? 3. How does money influences privacy? 4. What factors are increasing or decreasing privacy? 5. How many people are there on the world? Divided by continents age and race. 6. How does population diversity affects privacy? 7. Does culture affect privacy? 8. What technology and technological solutions are there to maintain privacy? 9. What methods exists to protect privacy? 10. Reasons for privacy? 11. What are the levels of privacy? 12. What is an acceptable level of privacy? 13. What are people willing to give up for privacy? 14. What are the gains of privacy? 15. Why is person x so interested in persons y’s privacy? 16. Why do people want to give up privacy? (security / anti-terror) 17. In what technological areas does privacy play a role? 18. What parties are involved in influencing privacy? 19. Can corps. Influence privacy? 20. Who started private information? 21. Is it possible to change privacy laws / legislation? (technological, political / research etc) 22. What is done with privacy info? 23. How aware are people of what is stored about them? 24. How aware are people of what they can do to protect their privacy? 25. How is the ubiquity of computers influence privacy? 26. What is the correlation between privacy and security? 27. How do people who have private info protect privacy? 28. What is the influence of social networks and privacy? (MSN Email Chat) 29. Effect of privacy on socialization? 30. How big is the role that privacy is playing in defining living conditions? (housing, location etc) 31. Can relationships be influenced by too much or too little privacy? 32. … spam 33. … popup 34. … spyware 35. Difference in perception of privacy between male/female? 36. What do people deem private info? 37. Reasoning for giving up privacy for entertainment? (Big Brother etc) 38. Relation between greed/curiosity and privacy? (the more private, the more interesting) 39. What are the latest developments in privacy laws/technology/… ? 40. What (global) historic events have led to privacy issues? 41. Blogs and privacy? 42. Progress or regression of privacy in relation uprising of blogs and websites? 43. Is the privacy issue larger in IT than in “real life”? 44. How will the new passports influence privacy? (stealing, data easily) 45. Customer loyalty cards and privacy issues… 46. How often do privacy infringements take place? 47. How does the price reduction and convergence of cameras affect privacy? 48. How is crime made easier by weak privacy protection? 49. When did privacy become an issue? 50. Influence of privacy on encryption algorithms. 51. Does the progression of IT lead to easier stealing of private info? 52. How much cyber crime is privacy related? 53. How does RFID, Galileo, GPS influence privacy? 54. How is Google earth viewed in regard to privacy? 55. Satellite images and privacy? 56. File Sharing trend and privacy issues?