I'm worried about privacy and it's not an appearance. Everything in my garbage can is mine. A bottle of preparation H in the landfill could be anyone's. The chances of you finding something with my name on it at the landfill are about 1 in 200,000.
I'm starting to dislike the "reasonable expectations" argument for rooting through people's things. It makes ordinary people have to think very hard to avoid being violated and allows for technological encroachment. You might have once thought your backyard was private, but aircraft make it not so. It can be argued that any police man or vagrant can aim a telescope through your window, so your living room is not private unless you board the windows. If you don't sound proof them, any old bum can buy a laser listening device. Like Bill Clinton once said, "just because it's easy to do, that does not make it right." On Wednesday 10 August 2005 07:51 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote: > If it's in the trash at your curb then it can eventually be sorted through > at the landfill by some vagrant or the police. What's the difference? That > you can see it happening? Are you any safer or do you have any more > privacy because people can't riffle through your papers at the curb > where you can see them, but they can do it at the landfill? > > In other words, are we arguing about privacy or the appearance of privacy? >
