Privacy: we’ll miss it when it’s gone
Privacy — the ‘right to be left alone’ — is under assault by giant corporations, by democratic governments and by dictatorships. It is also being destroyed by the complacency of too many Americans. But we will all miss privacy when it is gone. Especially those who value freedom. Because a police state is infinitely easier to enforce and maintain when no one has a zone of privacy.
Right now on Facebook, people all over the world are “tagging” head-shot photos to help a corporation create a face recognition directory of 500 million people. That emerging product will have great value to repressive governments, crime syndicates, and even special interest groups.
Also right now, some American judges and prosecutors have declared that government law enforcement agencies can GPS track all Americans without so much as a securing a warrant. Government tracking of everywhere every American goes, 24/365, without a warrant, permanently stored in a database. Do Liberals really want the next Dick Cheney or John Ashcroft to have that power? Would conservatives want Janet Reno, Rahm Emanuel or Barack Obama to have that power?
The people who will suffer most, and first, from the loss of privacy in our digital world are those already living in dictatorships like Iran and China. There, the police-state tracking of dissidents who want equal rights for women, or freedom of speech or religion, is already destroying lives. But Americans will also suffer, and it will happen sooner than people realize. We chronicle those issues here at TL4A.com, since so few in the media or political world are willing to tell the truth about it.
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