Environment Questions regarding the Future of Privacy

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Questions

1. How does money influence privacy? (Patrick)
   

   Money in itself can not influence privacy except for on superficial levels, such as being able to buy a large secure house in a secluded area to maintain privacy. 
   However, financial issues do very much affect privacy, Financial privacy, as defined by Richard W. Rahn, is “about the ability, and what many consider the right, to 
   keep confidential the facts concerning one’s income, expenditures, investments, and wealth.” The facts mentioned are kept for reasons of taxes, fraud prevention, crime control, and more recently terrorist watch. These are all valid reasons, but it also means that every transaction done is monitored and stored. This is surely an invasion
   of privacy and against the definition of financial privacy given above.
   

2. What factors are increasing or decreasing privacy? (Jurate)
3. How many people are there on the world? (Divided by continents age and race)(Jurate)
4. How does population diversity affects privacy? (Robert)
5. Does culture affect privacy? (Robert)
6. Reasons for privacy? (Patrick)
7. What are the levels of privacy? (Jurate)
8. What are the gains of privacy? (Jurate)
9. Why is person x so interested in persons y's privacy? (Robert)
   

   POWER. From centuries on people want to control other people. The things people or most likely companies want to control is the behavior of people. Companies can have
    tremendous advantages if they know what the shopping behavior is of people. Or even less difficult they can sent personal mailings although you are totally not 
   interested in the offers. This phenomena we know as spam but at this point I am referring to analogue spam. Even companies, although ignored, are sometimes willing to 
   pay a lot of money for this data. There is a huge black market for these kind of data. Therefore the amount of cyber crime is rapidly increasing. The internet is an easy 
   way to gain information because it is not totally secure although a lot of are thinking it is. 
   But this goes further than mailings. Governments are nowadays, after 9-11, very interested in the privacy data of certain persons. This has more to do with protecting 
   others than rather personal interest. 
   If we go back to the power to control it may seem strange but for a certain group of people in our societies it is rather interesting to know private/personal information 
   in order to be able to manipulate people. Which can be for their benefits. 
   

10. What parties are involved in influencing privacy? (Patrick)
11. Can corps. Influence privacy?
12. What is done with privacy info? (Patrick)
13. Effect of privacy on socialization?
14. How big is the role that privacy is playing in defining living conditions? (housing, location etc)(Jurate)
15. Reasoning for giving up privacy for entertainment? (Big Brother etc)(Jurate)