The NextWeb on Privacy and why we might have to pay to have some:

As companies begin to or continue to collect more information about us and our browsing preferences and so forth, I think you’ll see a growing number of businesses either offering new ways to communicate and surf the Internet in a secure fashion, or featuring ways to pay to eliminate such intrusions on our privacy,” Bakke continues. “And I think you’ll see more and more internet users willing to pay for such services.

When I was a kid and my parents got a phone call from a marketing research company, my dad used to joke that if they wanted some of his data then they’d better pay him upfront.

Not long ago, privacy was a given. Now you have to pay to have something which resembles it. How about tomorrow?