You can contact the webmaster at . I've always had sympathy for those who live in the public eye, especially when ugly details of their personal lives hit the press, potentially marking that person forever in the history books. Nobody wants their lives stripped of context and reduced to one image or one headline. As private citizens, most of us will experience our highs and lows anonymously, and we can afford the luxury of taking our privacy for granted. But perhaps the rise of the Internet has got us worried about Andy Warhol's prediction that we'll all actually get our 15 minutes of fame.
Marketers can glean ever more intimate details of our buying habits from online databases.
Tivo knows our favorite TV shows, and Time Warner knows which digital movies we've ordered. Maybe we fear that one day we'll all turn up on public Web pages, our friends and families alerted to our most shameful transgressions. A variation on a virus that hijacks your e-mail address book would make that possible right now. Or maybe our public Web profiles will consist solely of what we've bought, as if someone had picked through our trash. But this is not all we mean when we say we're concerned about our online privacy.