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

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.

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

On 11/21/2013 6:47 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:
>   Hi All --
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> FYI:
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> " Google’s Cerf Says “Privacy May Be An Anomaly”.
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> http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/20/googles-cerf-says-privacy-may-be-an-anomaly-historically-hes-right/
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> Your opinions?
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