The intrusion of technology into our private lives has been well documented. It's become a real talking point and a source of tension. On one hand, we all crave for privacy. On the other, we create digital shadows of our lives and that can often include friends.
So it's not surprising to read reports that European regulators are looking at whether the practice of posting photos, videos and other information about people on sites such as Facebook without their consent is a breach of privacy laws. The same applies to people posting videos of others persons on Google's YouTube.
What's fascinating here is the apparent conflict between European law and American law. In Europe, privacy constraints are much more rigidly defined, a trend we saw in February when three Google executives were convicted by an Italian court over a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied. Something like that would never have happened in America which tends to have a much more self-regulatory, free market approach.
Technology is not only reshaping our definitions of privacy, it might also be redefining the boundaries between nations.
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