Does real privacy exist?
Is privacy a dying concept? Is it more vibrant than ever? Do you believe in it?
Privacy
Does real privacy exist?
Is privacy a dying concept? Is it more vibrant than ever? Do you believe in it?
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Re: Privacy
yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesssssssssssssssssssssssss it bloody is, no offence to you but the dutch christian party is packed with absolutely pervers control freaks it´s getting more then a little bit scary.
Re: Privacy
Naturally... I do not even see why this issue needs a poll - a discussion thread would be just as fine, as it would seem to me that most would unanimously concur that privacy is on decline. Such is the effect of technology.
Re: Privacy
You hit the nail on the head. Technology makes everything smaller, including personal space.Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus
Naturally... I do not even see why this issue needs a poll - a discussion thread would be just as fine, as it would seem to me that most would unanimously concur that privacy is on decline. Such is the effect of technology.
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: Privacy
More like I donned the robes of Cap'n Obvious. Everyone knows that, which is why I said that the topic is so straightforward that even without the poll we could easily gauge the opinion of the Backroom.
Re: Privacy
I don't know, I'm not a historian.
We live in our own houses, used to be married couples would live with their parents in a tiny house. How's that for privacy?
Texting someone is more private than talking on the phone.
On the one hand, a picture of you doing something amusingly foolish can be seen by millions, but on the other hand more people live in cities which have less of a "everyone in the little town knows who you are and what you did last night" feel.
Re: Privacy
That's none of your business.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
Re: Privacy
Isn't it funny that a lot of people who work in the IT business seem to be the ones most concerned about (their own) privacy?
There has never been privacy before God, if you believe in God, anyway.
I'm not too worried about a loss of privacy although sometimes having it feels a bit more comfortable.
You also need privacy for banking for example, I wouldn't want everyone to have access to my bank account.
Last edited by Husar; 11-20-2009 at 01:57.
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Re: Privacy
If this poll is an indication, then no, because I can't see who voted what.
But yeah, it is. My feelings about it are pretty ambiguous. I'm generally not that worried about the government keeping track of things, what I am worried about is being forced to divulge sensitive information after wich they accidentily leak it to a third party.
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