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In reply to the discussion: Don't entertain this garbage. [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,072 posts)I make my choices about what to reveal. Each of the online entities I interact with has a privacy policy. I read every single one, and make very deliberate decisions about whether the bargain benefits me or not. For as heavily involved as I am online, my choices have been pretty conservative until recently - and they are still more conservative than average. Other people make different choices - some reveal more, some a lot less. That is the whole point - choice.
The government gave us no choice, didn't provide a privacy policy so we could know what they were gathering, who they would be sharing that data with, or how they might use it - AND - they have the power to use it to deprive us of our liberty and our rights, with no possibility of legal review because of the inherent secrecy. Ask my mother's friend who was disappeared in the middle of the night to an internment camp. Ask the people blacklisted as a result of the HUAC. Ask the Nobel Peace Prize winning AFSC who was infiltrated and spied on as part of COINTELPRO (look for the documents the FBI FOIA requests produced) as a violent subversive group. The outrage over that program was part of what turned the corner during the VietNam War - and far too many people are just sitting her, smiling, and saying - "no biggie" I trust Obama.
Any law for which there is no legal remedy for the infringement of our rights (because it is a secret program) and which requires that we trust the person currently in office to kindly not infringe them is a very dangerous law.