Privacy matters

The Wall Street Journal has been running an important series about the collection and exploitation of personal information on the Net. As part of that series, it is featuring a debate today between me and the Cato Institute's Jim Harper about online privacy - more particularly, the tradeoff between privacy and personalization. My essay begins like this: In a 1963 Supreme Court opinion, Chief Justice Earl Warren observed that "the fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication con...