Master of the house: why we should fight for truly private spaces
by Thomas McMullan from Technology | The Guardian on (#WNCZ)
New technology connects us, but in a world where you're only ever a swipe away from other people's thoughts, where do you keep your own?
Private faces in public places
Are wiser and nicer
Than public faces in private places
WH Auden
"How important is it that we no longer write diaries?" the playwright James Graham asks me. "I wrote a diary as a 14-year-old boy. I had the freedom to chew through some things I wasn't sure about, to say some things I knew would never be seen by anybody. I don't do that anymore. If I have a thought, I tweet it."
