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

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Nov 22 13:59:16 CST 2013


That does say it, but does the privileges given to law enforcement after 9/11, supersede all rights to privacy with the rights to security?

Jim   

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From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 7:26:15 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Google’s Cerf Says “Privacy May Be An Anomaly”.

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

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>
> 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 --
>>
>>
>> FYI:
>>
>> " Google’s Cerf Says “Privacy May Be An Anomaly”.
>>
>> http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/20/googles-cerf-says-privacy-may-be-an-anomaly-historically-hes-right/ 
>>
>>
>> Your opinions?
>>
>>
>
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