Online Privacy: Internet Protocol with Tish

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It used to be that when I wanted some privacy, I would go for a walk on the beach, hang-out at home, or even simply put on headphones with my favorite music and crash on my living room floor. That was all it took. Privacy was simple and easy. It was anywhere I wanted it to be. But somehow along the way, privacy became a much more complicated thing. It now is elusive. Unattainable. Virtually impossible to find and/or fully enjoy. I don't even know what privacy means anymore. Every time I attempt to have a private moment, I seem to get distracted, interrupted or somehow called back to the world I am trying to take a break from. Electronic messengers beep -- signaling the arrival of a new email message, text, tweet, voicemail, request for a video chat -- or even a local weather alert. My smart phone diligently beckons me with a cacophony of sound effects that I have come to know for what they represent; some sort of electronic message needs my attention. My mobile phone vibrates out of frustration in a last ditch effort to get my attention when I silence it's audible signals. But personal privacy is much bigger than that. It crosses the border from the world in which I live to the world where I surf and browse; my online presence. There, I am always available, searchable, tweetable. There is no place to hide. No way to "go dark", or stealth, or just escape the barrage of messages that arrive all around me accompanied by their little sound effects which I have grown so accustommed to. In all honesty, it's completely my fault. There was a day, long ago, when I decided to create a Facebook page. At another moment of weakness, Twitter drew me in -- partially because everyone was talking about it, and partially because I couldn't comprehend why anyone would want to post little, personal messages for the whole world to see. Although Twitter's logic initially boggled my mind, I suddenly felt the urge to move quickly to secure the perfect Twitter account name... just in case I ever needed one -- and more importantly, before all the good ones were taken by others. I think my quest to procure the best e-account name possible was born when I received my first email account nearly 25 years ago. Then, my employer's email naming convention was Lastnamefirstinitial. I suddenly was branded Wagnerd. Oddly, I liked it in a way that only a budding computer dweeb could. Little did I know then that Wagnerd would be the first of so many e-identities that would assume me and absorb my personal privacy in the coming years. If you feel you have lost your sense of personal privacy thanks to the Internet, then you should check-out our newest edition of "Internet Protocol with Tish" by clicking the video player above. Also, we would love to hear your thoughts, comments, concerns or gripes about how the Internet has eroded what you used to call privacy. If you want, you can speak-out on our blog below, anonymously. That could be a good first step toward regaining what remains of your own privacy. Dan Wagner Executive Producer Internet Protocol with Tish