Comments on: Flying to the US? Hand over your emails. http://www.e-ignite.co.uk/blog/archives/59 Security and Privacy related stories - what's in the news just now? Fri, 14 May 2010 08:22:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Adam http://www.e-ignite.co.uk/blog/archives/59/comment-page-1#comment-205 Adam Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:07:34 +0000 http://www.e-ignite.co.uk/blog/archives/privacy/59#comment-205 The point that you raise is an interesting one - in fact, this is at the heart of the whole privacy argument. I've got nothing to hide either... but I still have a right to privacy. Maybe you should work for the US government, Blaster ;-) "Why don't you want us knowing everything about you? Do you have something to hide?" The response: "No, I don't have anything to hide. Therefore, you have no need to know everything about me." I agree that in the current climate, it's important for certain information to be passed around, but I don't think it should be a free-for-all. There should be a defined legal process before this kind of information is given out. This is highlighted in <a href="http://www.e-ignite.co.uk/blog/archives/privacy/32" rel="nofollow">another article I published</a> where certain UK Government officials warned of "Sleepwalking into a surveillance society". Once personal privacy rights have been removed, you won't get them back. It'll be called "progress" but I don't think it's a good thing in this instance. The point that you raise is an interesting one – in fact, this is at the heart of the whole privacy argument. I’ve got nothing to hide either… but I still have a right to privacy.

Maybe you should work for the US government, Blaster ;-)
“Why don’t you want us knowing everything about you? Do you have something to hide?”
The response: “No, I don’t have anything to hide. Therefore, you have no need to know everything about me.”

I agree that in the current climate, it’s important for certain information to be passed around, but I don’t think it should be a free-for-all. There should be a defined legal process before this kind of information is given out. This is highlighted in another article I published where certain UK Government officials warned of “Sleepwalking into a surveillance society”. Once personal privacy rights have been removed, you won’t get them back. It’ll be called “progress” but I don’t think it’s a good thing in this instance.

]]> By: Blaster http://www.e-ignite.co.uk/blog/archives/59/comment-page-1#comment-204 Blaster Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:56:07 +0000 http://www.e-ignite.co.uk/blog/archives/privacy/59#comment-204 well i guess i can see why they would do that. They don\'t want terrorists in this country. We are afraid I guess you can put it. So i really don\'t care. I don\'t have anything to hide. well i guess i can see why they would do that. They don\’t want terrorists in this country. We are afraid I guess you can put it. So i really don\’t care. I don\’t have anything to hide.

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