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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> 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 ----- > > 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? >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com