[ExI] before?

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 14:33:12 UTC 2016


It's not just governments. Companies are at least as bad about
disliking individual privacy.

And do you know why?  I'll bet it's loss.  The last time I looked, employee
theft was number one the chart of company losses.  bill w

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 3:31 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 April 2016 at 04:34, spike wrote:
> > He has an interesting take on privacy: the Germans really get the whole
> > privacy thing much better than Yanks.  They remember what happened in the
> > 1930s and know it can happen again, anywhere.  His words ring true to me
> as
> > I listen to the current appalling crop of US presidential candidates.
> All
> > four of the remaining candidates have an outlook that favors statism.
> All
> > four feel like power grabbers to me.  I am hoping one of them will choose
> > Gary Johnson as a running mate.
> >
>
> It's not just governments. Companies are at least as bad about
> disliking individual privacy. The direction of technology is to stop
> people being anonymous consumers. If someone consumes (buys) a product
> or service then they must have id so that the database records can be
> updated and analysed.
>
> That is part of the reasoning to ban cash transactions. Micro payments
> will mean that even the most trivial of actions will require id and be
> tracked and recorded. Your smartphone already means that most of your
> life is recorded. Where, when, how much, how long, who else was
> present, what was spoken or texted, is all in the databases.
>
> In the near future, destroying your smartphone and internet link will
> ensure you join the underclass of 'non-persons' banished from society.
>
> BillK
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