Post-haste, repent at leisure as we abandon privacy on social media

IT’S a curious paradox that, at a time when we have a robust regulatory authority devoted to the protection of data, and therefore, by inference, devoted to the protection of privacy, we have so many people so resolutely determined to sacrifice their own privacy, no matter what it may cost them in the long term.

Like the train driver who has now been formally accused of negligent homicide in relation to the Spanish train disaster and who has stated his wish to die because of the lives lost therein.

Here is a man, not in the first or even the second flush of youth, who has been a trusted railway employee for more than two decades. It’s difficult to juxtapose that background with his apparently excessive love of speed, and even more difficult to square it with him having such a careless-and-gay attitude to social media.