Is anyone else worried about privacy these days?

With more and more social technologies allowing us to monitor every minute of our friends and enemies lives, is anyone concerned we’re opening ourselves up to too much transparency?

Fortunately this new application hasn’t yet launched in Australia, but have a look at Dirt Search, which searches public records data in the US. i obviously couldn’t search for myself, so I searched for Paris Hilton in New York who came up ‘dirty’. Her ‘Dirtscore’ is 1 times dirty, but the site it sent me to for details came up with no records. Hopefully this site isn’t genuinly searching public records and making them available to anyone searching online?

Another application I came across yesterday on springwise.com is Sense Networks’ Citysense service, which allows consumers in San Francisco to see the top nightlife hotspots. Citysense explain how it works “Using a billion points of GPS and WiFi positioning data from the last few years – plus real-time feeds – Citysense sees S.F. from above and puts the top live hotspots in your hand. You don’t even need to sign up, just go to citysense.com on your BlackBerry, download, and open.”

As a digital marketer, this kind of application opens up enormous potential for highly targeted consumer messaging, but as a human being I find this a bit freeky…does anyone else worry that this might be a great tool for terrorists to find the perfect place to set off a bomb?