2010/9/17 P N Stenquist <[email protected]>: > > [...] So far no one has impinged on > my freedom to live the way I choose, so I'm content.
Yes and no. Do you know how much they know about you? Do you know if your political views are on record anywhere? It does make a difference and if you work in the wrong place it can perhaps cost you your job. I'm friends with a former Navy civil employee who worked among other things in her past career as a cryptography expert before becoming a trainer in some theoretical area of aviation maintenance. We had lots of heated political discussions and I was very outspoken in my bush bashing views and gitmo ghraib summer camp opinions. She used her navy mail address for lots of these and I often told her better not to. About a year later they let her go on formal grounds, some stats thing about her classes or structural needs. I've been wondering since if perhaps talking to someone with the wrong opinion got her sacked even though she has kids in the military and so on... maybe there is no relation but then maybe there is. People are no longer very sensitive as to who knows what about them. In the eighties in Germany we fought the census to the teeth; these days we allow others to know more about ourselves than was asked back then just to get bonus points at the drugstore. Look at what facebook, google and hotmail do with the data sent through their systems and then think further what the NSA or a similar agency can do. Often times people argue they have nothing to hide, so why should they care? Maybe you don't but for starters it affects your credit rating. Also, how do you know everything someone stores about you is accurate and true? It would be different if you had legal ownership of that information but you don't. Think about it Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
