I received an email from my hosting service informing me today, January 28th, is Data Privacy Day. Is data privacy really a thing? Between Siri, Alexa, every social media account and any on-line service we see daily examples of just how un-private all of our data has become.
In fact, isn’t the term “Data Privacy” a perfect example of the primary definition of an oxymoron?
Ox·y·mo·ron:
/ˌäksəˈmôrˌän/
1. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
2. A person who really believed Billy Mays when he said Oxiclean gets out tough stains.
3. A couple’s portmanteau of the brain’s Occipital Lobe and Donald Trump.