When East Germany fell apart, one of the first things people there did was to storm the buildings that housed the much hated Stasi (Ministry for State Security), the ministry that was in charge of spying on their own population. How important is privacy to you?
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Jump to Post@ddanbe - let's take a hypothetical. You frequent an adult book store, or perhaps a bar, or even make weekly visits to a psychiatrist/therapist. Every entrance/exit to these establishments is captured on camera. These activities are all perfectly legal but do you want a record of these visits kept? For …
Jump to Postseriously privacy isn't really that important if your not a crook.
I mean the government may have hours of video of you cheating on your wife,but who cares. They won't tell on you. You will get away with it because its not against the law.
But if your planning a …
Jump to PostWell, there is a record of all the YouTube videos you ever watched, all the emails you send, all the phone calls you made. Wonder who pays for storage and retrieval?
Not sure where you are, but there are laws here limiting (and in other cases forcing) what …
Jump to PostThere's definately going to be mis-use here and there. But that doesn't justify the need for so much privacy.
if anything, it does...
There's no good reason for wanting to control and monitor everything that everyone does at any momemt, except the desire to control people, restrict their …
Jump to PostIn the U.S. principles of government are defined in the Declaration of Independance. It says hat Man has unalienable rights - which means that they are not something that we have and can be taken away, but are what we are - we are our rights. And one of those …
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That's indeed what I meant.
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