Comments on: Can We Get A Little Privacy Here? https://commonsenseworld.com/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/ Thoughts on Politics and Life Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:22:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.32 By: Anonymous https://commonsenseworld.com/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-861 Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:01:00 +0000 http://annafiltest.wordpress.com/2005/10/14/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-861 Your blog contained issues relating to identity theft legislation which I found quite absorbing. I would argue that identity theft legislation matters are best left to the professionals in most cases.

]]> By: Ken Grandlund https://commonsenseworld.com/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-860 Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:34:00 +0000 http://annafiltest.wordpress.com/2005/10/14/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-860 (responses)

OKLib- Even if “actual” privacy is in some ways less attainable to the common man, the inference of privacy should remain strong.

And I don’t think electronic freedom is a lost cause so long as we put our minds ahead of the profit mongers and search for real security of sensitive information.

Eko- Terrorism goes a bit deeper than that I think- but the responses to terror can have some of the same chilling effects. I only hope people recognize and work to prevent that from happening.
Nice to hear from you as always.

]]> By: Eko Prasetyo https://commonsenseworld.com/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-859 Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:45:00 +0000 http://annafiltest.wordpress.com/2005/10/14/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-859 terrorism is the plot set by some lowly criminals to strengthen the security and military industry, and to make governments have more reasons to weaken democracy by spying on everyday lives of their citizens.

i hate the paranoid androids created by the current state of terrorism-feared civilization.

]]> By: Unadulterated Underdog https://commonsenseworld.com/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-858 Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:40:00 +0000 http://annafiltest.wordpress.com/2005/10/14/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-858 It seems to me that the only true privacy anymore belongs to the man or woman with enough money to buy a large home, build a large wall around and sound proof the property. Then, in the deepest section of their house and away from prying eyes and open windows, they can truly do as they wish. This is the only true freedom of privacy left and it is not truly a freedom for it costs quite a lot more money than most people ever make much less see.

In regards to electronic freedom, that’s a lost cause. By having the ease of transporting ideas and money so quickly, we also lose that individuality that comes from person-to-person transactions. Thus, while the Internet seems to distance us from others, it puts almost everything about us in an easy-to-access system for anyone to take who knows the way the system works. That means that in the public world, there can not be any true privacy anymore.

Overall, I would still say that the only true privacy is that of the rich person in the deepest room of their walled-off home. Nowhere else can one truly escape the public or even have a quiet, unobserved moment. Even in the deepest, darkest corner of Africa, cannot the government still watch you with a spy satellite?

Good post Ken! Good post!

]]> By: Ken Grandlund https://commonsenseworld.com/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-857 Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:09:00 +0000 http://annafiltest.wordpress.com/2005/10/14/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-857 (responses)

Drakonik- I agree, but I don’t think it’s becasue they are afraid of work…it is because they have few skills that can get them a good paycheck, so theft is easier.

Jeanette- Thanks for dropping by again. Always good to hear from you.

Windspike- I hear you. OF course, you can always offer up false information to secure their “savings cards.”

You are not alone.

]]> By: windspike https://commonsenseworld.com/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-856 Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:51:00 +0000 http://annafiltest.wordpress.com/2005/10/14/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-856 Ken,

Every time I walk in to the grocery store and they ask me to “swipe my club card,” if feel violated. My local grocery store knows more about my daily living than my own mother, it seems.

Privacy, unfortunately, has become a myth and with the abdication of all individual rights by the signing into law of the so called Patriot Act.

Orwell’s Big Brother is alive. I feel betrayed by our government. Am I alone?

]]> By: Jeanette https://commonsenseworld.com/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-855 Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:46:00 +0000 http://annafiltest.wordpress.com/2005/10/14/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-855 Hi Ken! Thanks for commenting at Wordslightfires and indeed I did. I’m a humanist and it is my own tenet to living my life attempting to do that which is right. You’ve got a great sight here, keep blogging you are making a difference.
United in Peace………..

]]> By: Drakonik https://commonsenseworld.com/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-854 Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:09:00 +0000 http://annafiltest.wordpress.com/2005/10/14/can-we-get-a-little-privacy-here/#comment-854 It’s a shame that people are so afraid of working for a living, and resort to stealing the lives of others. =\

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