Does anyone care about personal privacy anymore?
It’s been in the news a lot lately: corporate executives stepping forward to say they can’t be bothered to protect their employees’ rights to privacy, or the head honchos at FaceBook making snide comments about how passé the whole privacy thing is anyway. I don’t remember ever agreeing to give up my right to not have every last stranger know every last fact about me. I also don’t see how the internet has to necessarily equal total exposure. Like any kind of technology, we’re the ones who created it and we’re the ones who can adjust it. How do others feel about this? Does anyone else sense an encroaching disregard for the right to privacy, among various other personal liberties? Or am I just very uncool?
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Well the technology exist to invade privacy at every turn. And you have seen how well the government enforces laws they don’t want to be bothered with. Like our little illegal alien problem. So passing a law would do less than no good. It would just waste your time.
So educating yourself and doing what you personally can is the only privacy your going to get. Take all the little privacy policies on various web sites. Not worth the time it takes to read them. Because basically it is just their word. Which is worth nothing.
Even if someone wanted to. You would still have to be better than who ever wants to break in. The only privacy we have left is between our ears. And government and big business are both spending billions trying to find a way to take that one away to.
Use encryption etc when you can. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been fighting this battle for years and have a lot of good resources and information you can access. But most web sites will sell any information they have on you at the drop of a hat. And many will give it away.