Tuesday, 1 June 2004

None of your business...

Check out this article. It's a discussion of the increasing access to personal information in all areas in the name of fighting the "war" on terrorism. There's always the defense that if you don't have anything to hide then you should have any worries about invasions of privacy. That's true. In an ideal world. If the information was true [which it isn't always], if you have the ability to change and review it [which most of the people most of the time do not], if everyone handling the information is absolutely trustworthy [which they are not], then why would we need any privacy [or anonymity... a closely related concept]? In a perfect world, privacy might not be an issue, anonymity might not be an issue, but it is. So suck it up.

[ Read "Who wants to know? Privacy vs. security debated" by Anne-Marie O'Connor from The Seattle Times on Sunday, May 30, 2004 ]

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