[dba-Tech] Google’s Cerf Says “Privacy May Be An Anomaly”.

Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com
Fri Nov 22 11:13:51 CST 2013


Hi Peter,

Well, I had to look up UDHR, because I didn't recognize the acronym.  
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by the United Nations General 
Assembly, 1948 is what I found.

Thank you for guiding me to this document.

Best to you,
TNF

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
231-322-2787

On 11/22/2013 10:26 AM, Peter Brawley wrote:
> On 2013-11-22 8:59 AM, Tina Norris Fields wrote:
>> It's interesting to me that the presumption of a right to privacy in 
>> the U.S. stems from the assurances of the Fourth Amendment, to be 
>> secure from unreasonable search and seizure, combined with the 
>> assurances of the Ninth Amendment that rights that haven't been 
>> enumerated still exist and are retained by the States and the People 
>> themselves.
>
> Article 12 of the UDHR says "No one shall be subjected to interference 
> with his privacy, family, home or correspondence..."
>
> PB
>
> -----
>
>>
>> Although the right to privacy wasn't supported by documentation until 
>> the Supreme Court 1967 decision, the families I knew while growing up 
>> all presumed they had the right to keep certain information to 
>> themselves.  The concept that some things were nobody else's business 
>> is not a new concept.  However, I would point out that the American 
>> culture wasn't all that clear about its attitudes, as demonstrated by 
>> laws on the books that regulated what persons could and couldn't do 
>> within their own bedrooms.  So, while I believe we have long had a 
>> sense of ownership and choice concerning what we reveal to others, we 
>> haven't been even-handed in our attitude when it came to prying into 
>> the affairs of others.
>>
>> To paraphrase an old saying, it's not so much that we opposed 
>> ox-goring as that we opposed having our own ox gored.
>>
>> Best to you,
>> TNF
>>
>> Tina Norris Fields
>> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
>> 231-322-2787



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