Feds in America very excited about new global privacy alert system US watchdog the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has signed an agreement with seven countries to share cross-border information relating to privacy. The new "alert" system will let regulators from America, UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Norway share confidential information about ongoing …
I was discussing this on an yank-centric forum, and had privacy thoroughly explained to me.
First you should understand that privacy is dead, and knowing everything about me will allow corporations to improve services. The more they know, the better my life will be.
Next, privacy is actually just a cover for European protectionism, and because only America can actually build a search engine, Google will take their ball home and we'll be begging for them to come back and snarfle up our data.
Also privacy is just the thin end of the wedge. Privacy, or in fact any regulation, leads to environmentalism, socialism, and finally communism in that order of increasing evilness.
So now you know the truth about privacy.
I'm a Yank...
Privacy might be dead but not because "most" people want it that way. Politicians have told people repeatedly that it's about "terrorists". Such corporates as Google and MS and others have told people repeatedly that it's about "improving the user experience.
As for everything else.. those folks get sound like they've been paying too much attention to Faux News and not reading other sources (both conservative and liberal since there's no un-biased news).
The old saying about telling a lie often enough and vehemently enough and soon people believe it as the truth, applies here.
Yes, we citizens are mushrooms. Our government keeps us in the dark and feeds us bullshit.
It will never measure up. Give it 100 years and maybe if things have changed, it will work. The fact is, if you make data available to the US corporations it will likely be intercepted, analyzed and disseminated to your favorite TLAs. I'm an American, but I feel like I live in Cold War Russia. Thanks to my congress critter asswipes who vote to sell their constituents' privacy to the lowest bidder. May they rot in hell.
The US TLA's will operate on the following premise
1) You give us everything. We already have it so this just makes it semi-legal instead of illegal
2) We give you nithing because everything we do in covered by 'National Security'. Yes this applies to the brands of Coffee we have in our offices. Can't have those Commies outside the USA knowing things like that.
Ok friends in foreign parts, off you go and get on with working in this nice new level playing field. Remember that we will be monitoring your compliance on a daily basis.
Where we were all pretty much anonymous; we didn't lock our doors, few had a phone, travel left little data, no one had a credit card and (ironically) you knew everyone in your town.
(of course that's the 60's of a privileged white kid, other people's mileage varied)
I wonder how the war with Eastasia is going?
Eastasia is our friend and ally, and always has been. Only last week, Airstrip One was honoured by a visit from their glorious leader.
Eurasia is our enemy, and always has been. Very shortly, Big Brother will give us all the opportunity to leave it forever.
Benefits are restraints.
Cuts are liberation.
Plutocracy is equality.
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