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THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, there'd be no more privacy. And they were right!
What's that? Oh, you mean it's NOT Post Like Glenn Reynolds Day anymore? Never mind...
In a monstrous fit of pique, the out-going left-wing government of Italy released on the web the salaries of every single Italian. The data was very popular for the 24 hours it was available, before being taken down because of a warning from the country's "privacy watchdog." Officials responsible for the actions, in a nice display of Newspeak, described the website as nothing more than an attempt to "improve transparency."
The purpose of government transparency is to increase the accountability of the government to the people, not of the people to the government. Transparency in the one direction leads to democracy and the rule of law. Transparency in the other direction leads to fascism.
[Cross-posted at PoliGazette.com]
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Definitely bad
Definitely bad stuff.
...except, we DON'T have the privacy, which makes it different from Reynolds, Traveled recently without producing your travel documentation and having your things searched?
It's all relative...
We have a little more privacy than THAT!
Besides, I haven't been able to get on an airplane without producing ID or having my bags x-rayed for about 20 years, I think.
In general, of course, I agree with you on a lot of that sort of thing. One of my frustrations with the hate-Bush crowd is that their tendency to focus on HIM often blinds them to often worse assaults on privacy by others on both the left and the right.
20 years at least. I'm old
20 years at least. I'm old enough to remember flying commercial without going through metal detectors for the people or X-ray machines for carryons. Metal detectors showed up in the early to mid-'70s, the X-ray machines came later, and that varied by airport and carrier. Before the Xray machines they used to search you AND your carryon when you set off the metal detector. ID requirements were hit & miss through the '90's, by carrier and airport, universal after 9/11.
If you're under 35, you've likely never flown commercial without having to at least walk through the metal detector, and getting wanded and/or searched if it beeped.
True
I'll confirm the last paragraph as being true. There was a time when you could fly without going through a metal detector?!?! What are you going to tell me next - you could type without a computer? Sheesh!
I blame DB Cooper.
I blame DB Cooper.
plane grumble
I don't mind automatic detectors, when set at levels reasonable enough that it doesn't amount to perpetual manual search, and not being overpriced, not-yet-working pork.
I DO mind manual searches, having my luggage pilfered-from^h^h^h^h^hsearched, and especially having to show my ID. I DO mind having to make a big deal of taking things off and putting thing on again. I DO mind people making it hard to keep myself healthy (hydrated). I notice that the (1) said plot was discovered before they boarded, (2) and would've been very hard to carry out atall, much less without other people getting suspicious. This is about fearing imagination, not reality.
Where I lived, the ID requirement appeared after Flight 800 was suspected to been bombed. It didn't go away, of course, even after NTSB reported it wasn't a bomb.
Type without a computer? You're making that up. Next you'll be telling me people used to send mail without computers. ;-)
Oh, pilfering has always
Oh, pilfering from luggage has always been widespread. Ever flown through Atlanta or Miami? I think it's practically required in the job description for baggage handler.