tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974997875021040765.post356539789392794109..comments2024-03-12T12:04:59.304+01:00Comments on Peter Fleischer: Privacy...?: I know people who spent their entire childhood hiding from the German governmentAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09908660263905877338noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974997875021040765.post-60128447106135581072007-09-30T09:30:00.000+01:002007-09-30T09:30:00.000+01:00A great American once said, one who gives up liber...A great American once said, one who gives up liberty for freedom ends up with neither. Probably this remains a structure un-bulldozed.<BR/><BR/>A solid human rights regime is nothing without<BR/>a solid privacy regime.<BR/><BR/>I guess we're a camp from which a high minority<BR/>might fire down upon, but our refuge is in defending against the occupation of our time-tested legislation.<BR/><BR/>Either we protect our regime, or lose it. I rather my freedoms remain unoccupied by what too often are alien influences to democracy.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Fondly,<BR/>Touché DeGassAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974997875021040765.post-24295046805321592682007-08-01T15:20:00.000+01:002007-08-01T15:20:00.000+01:00Germany is a fine example when it comes to privacy...Germany is a fine example when it comes to privacy. In WOII it was only to convinient that the pre-war officials had collected large amounts of private data from it citizens, allowing an easy and accurate sorting of jews, roma, and other "unwanted" individuals. One can blame the collecters of this data not of massacre of course but one can blame the for ignorance at what will happen to the data in the wrong hands. Unfortunately one can never tell in who's hands collected data eventually turns up. So it might be wise not to collect any data at all unless the holder of the data is completely aware of such. Google has a reputation of not being so forthcoming of what is recorded for what purpose and for how long. A totaliarist dream, I would say.theking2https://www.blogger.com/profile/12994594541960509611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6974997875021040765.post-60235554857735707072007-07-09T20:10:00.000+01:002007-07-09T20:10:00.000+01:00My take on this is very simple: "how much do you t...My take on this is very simple: "how much do you trust he government with your data?"<BR/><BR/>If you say you do then the subsidiary question is "how much do you trust their successors"?<BR/><BR/>Yo may say: 'we need the data to fight terrorism - the most pernicious threat to democracy ever"<BR/><BR/>In the 1930's Interpol gathered data to fight crime. When the Nazi's came to power they then used the Interpol data, gathered to fight crime (terror in he modern context), to locate the names and addresses of Jews.<BR/><BR/>As a direct result of data mining 'for the public good' an unknowable but huge number of Jews died. <BR/><BR/>In the absence of such data these Jews with Aryan looks would have blended into the community and if asked would have said "yes, I am catholic" and would have lived.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com