Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 22 14:28:52 CST 2013
On 2013-11-22 1:59 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote: > 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? Do you mean to ask that about the US? It ratified the UDHR, so it's the law of the land. A sad joke. PB > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com