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closeupready

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2. In America, privacy is for the 1%.

Reply to IDemo (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2014, 05:02 PM

Dec 2014

In Europe, on the other hand, personal privacy is considered so sacred that Google complies with court orders to remove damaging personal information from search results. Land of the free, home of the brave ... because you can't hide anything from authorities or anyone willing to pay for your personal, private information.

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Experts Forecast the End of Privacy as We Know It [View all] IDemo Dec 2014 OP

It has been gone for years already. nt Live and Learn Dec 2014 #1

In America, privacy is for the 1%. closeupready Dec 2014 #2

We all live in The Village. hifiguy Dec 2014 #3

Oh, yeah - We are all Patrick McGoohan. closeupready Dec 2014 #5

That show taught me to NEVER trust any authority hifiguy Dec 2014 #6

It's not so free when information is censured because someone wants it to be. randome Dec 2014 #4