There's things that will never change, and one of them is here right in front of our eyes.
I know the news is a bit old, but I've bumped on this link which I saved in my favourites a while ago:
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=scarlett+johansson&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0
I am curious by nature and I love interpreting data, then one of my favourite services of Google is of course, Google Trends. But this search shows something obvious to any reader. The amount of queries for "scarlett johansson" was ridiculously increased when there was the news that her nude pictures taken from her phone by some hacker and published over the internet. Then, it went back to almost normal after a few days (when people obtained the pictures or could not manage to get them).
I've found this particular search query so incredibly relevant to easily explain two problems:
- Science will never be popular between the general public, as it is clear that people are interested in something else: porn. And all that comes with it, from nude pictures to light gossip between celebrities. If you ask people to name who won the Academy Awards in 2009 I am sure you'll get more right answers than asking who won the Chemistry Nobel prize in 2009. I can't even name anyone who won the ducking Nobel prize that year, figure how well would do someone not involved in science.
- Never consider anything on your happily connected-to-the-internet smartphone as safe. If people wanted it, they could easily get something you consider private and share it. And don't think that legal actions will make you justice, as Ms. Joahnsson desperately tried. Anything which is (or has been) on the internet once, is public forever.
Oh, and if you use facebook on your mobile, everything in it is property of facebook, anyway.
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