On 2012-12-18 23:23, Tom C wrote:
In what way I ask. There's certainly much I don't know. Are you referring to the concept of personal privacy or the state of personal privacy (i.e. the ease with which it can be invaded and trampled upon)? I understand privacy can be invaded in any number of ways, but never in human history have major portions of populations, via technology, enabled powers to clandestinely track them, including their whereabouts, contacts, purchases, transactions, etc.
If I understand the argument correctly, it's about expectation of privacy. The argument seems to go along the lines of how, outside fairly recent Western societies, privacy didn't really exist due to the living conditions, to the extent that no one really thought much about it, much less agonized over whether it was a right, a privilege, a circumstance, or a symptom.
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