On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:24 PM, eckinator wrote:
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
I have thought about it. I've also thought about the need for national
security. I'm content with the compromises that have to be made to
secure the latter.
Paul
Ecke
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