Jim, I'm surprised. It's only since 1984 that the government is allowed to tell us how to use words, and I'd have thought that having the spies redefine our language for us would have resulted in...different thoughts from you.
Adam
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· 2 years ago
He has a point. If you walk into a bookstore, you don't wear a mask. You expect people to look at you as you present yourself, see your name on your credit card, look at what you purchase, etc.
What you don't except them to do is write all that down and share it with other parties.
So in a sense, he's right, but I have a feeling that his ideas about what laws and customs should apply are far looser than mine.
Jim Harper
· 2 years ago
Sorry, Adam. Coming to this as I did at the end of a weekend, I guess I didn't get as cranky about it as I probably should have. Can't be outraged all the time! Though the basis for perma-outrage is there . . .
More important officials have gotten it even more wrong than Kerr did, as you may have seen me document in a post called Chertoff Doesn't Get Privacy Either.
Reader in Houston
· 2 years ago
Kerr, notes the press service story, is 68. He's from the generation that gave us many wars and from a culture that leaned far more politically conservative than most folks in the generations that followed him.
Kerr is part of the "old guard". Most of the twentysomethings he effectively dings for their use of MySpace, Facebook and Google would most certainly not be able to relate to him or his values - they would not trust him, and why should they? His point of view is that you do what the government tells you to do and to never question. That's what the majority of folks in his age bracket believe, and that's how they act.
At most, this guy has another 20 years. The rest of us behind him may have to live with the effects created by his decisions and policies. Think about that before dismissing his comments.
deadzone
· 2 years ago
Wow we need to get some younger people in office! These old farts that know next to nothing about new technology are going to ruin it for all of us.
It's ironic really. This is coming from an entity that routinely will act in the most secretive manner possible and purports this to be for our own good. I don't want to be anonymous - I just want to know that my personal information is going to be safe and that it's not going to be used in a manner that it should not be to either harm me or someone else.
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Adam
What you don't except them to do is write all that down and share it with other parties.
So in a sense, he's right, but I have a feeling that his ideas about what laws and customs should apply are far looser than mine.
More important officials have gotten it even more wrong than Kerr did, as you may have seen me document in a post called Chertoff Doesn't Get Privacy Either.
Kerr is part of the "old guard". Most of the twentysomethings he effectively dings for their use of MySpace, Facebook and Google would most certainly not be able to relate to him or his values - they would not trust him, and why should they? His point of view is that you do what the government tells you to do and to never question. That's what the majority of folks in his age bracket believe, and that's how they act.
At most, this guy has another 20 years. The rest of us behind him may have to live with the effects created by his decisions and policies. Think about that before dismissing his comments.
It's ironic really. This is coming from an entity that routinely will act in the most secretive manner possible and purports this to be for our own good. I don't want to be anonymous - I just want to know that my personal information is going to be safe and that it's not going to be used in a manner that it should not be to either harm me or someone else.