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Originally Posted by aceventura3
...Wake up. If you want privacy don't do stuff in the public relm. Don't enter into agreements with companies that collect and store data. Don't use public roads and facilities, etc.
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That goes without saying, no?
That gathering, storing, and analysis methods are improving does not mean we want to let it run unchecked. The erosion of "implied" anonymity is more due to improvements in technology than any policy. Current policy is coincidental. (Though I believe they feed each other.) Mankind hasn't had to contend with systematic privacy intrusions on these scales before, and it's not likely to slow. Business and government benefit while people get creeped out and abuses climb. Who'll win? I'm putting a cautious $5 on big legislation in the next 10yrs. (assuming we see a significant congressional cleanup first)
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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