Computers, Privacy & the Constitution

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 When you enjoy no privacy from commercial entities, perhaps the worst you have to fear is price discrimination. The danger when the government and governmental agencies enter the picture is authoritarianism.

-- AndreiVoinigescu - 16 May 2009

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>		I agree with Andrei's points, and I would also emphasize something Andrei only implied: the harm of data aggregation. No, there is nothing evil with putting a GPS system in a rental car, or using your purchase history on Amazon to give suggestions about what to buy. The evil comes when people can own your identity by pulling all the information about you together. With aggregation, the things that do not hit your common sense threshold of "what can not stand" are done, and then together can be used for evil. This can be done by an authoritarian state (as Andrei points out), or a private investigator.

Each and every one of us, consciously or unconsciously, spends a large amount of time crafting personae or a persona that we present to the world. We tell the story of ourselves, usually emphasizing the good and often leaving out the bad. When someone tracks (or pays a person or people who already tracked) your cell phone, your car, your text messages and emails, your purchases and your salary, they are the ones that get to tell the story of you, complete with footnotes, and your ability to control your sense of 'self' is wrested away.

-- JustinColannino - 16 May 2009

 
 
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