Research Design Connections: Privacy Now and Then
Acquisti and colleagues discuss supporting humans’ need for privacy today and long ago in a recent issue of Science. Their findings shed light on positively providing physical and technical privacy. A press release issued by Science for the Aquisiti-lead article reports that the researchers “argue that the evolutionary roots of human privacy could teach a lesson about modern privacy and how to manage it in the digital age. . . . ‘Understanding and then accounting for those ancestral roots of privacy may be critical to secure its future’ [Acquisiti team quote]. . . . privacy and our need for it have remained constant throughout human history. Humans likely evolved their sense of privacy based on knowledge about their physical surroundings, such as detecting the presence of others. Even today, being alone is generally how the boundaries between public and private are defined. When it comes to digital privacy, these cues …
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