The Privacy Conundrum: What Will You Give Up To Protect Your Identity?

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., center, leaves after testifying at the European Union (EU) parliament in Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday, May 22, 2018. Zuckerberg offered European Union lawmakers his latest mea culpa for the social network's role in a privacy scandal that tarnished his company's reputation. In Open Society and Its Enemies, Sir Karl Popper positioned Plato as public enemy No. 1. Plato, in his work The Republic, proposed an ideal system of government that should cause any lover of liberty and progress to recoil. Popper warned that in Plato's utopia, "Everything possible has been done to eradicate from our life everywhere and in every way all that is private and individual…. Our very eyes and ears and hands seem to see, to hear, and to act, as if they belonged not to individuals but to the community."