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Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness"
From: "Bruce Ediger" <eballen1 () qwest net>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:16:10 -0700 (MST)
On 10/30/06, rms () computerbytesman com <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
Hmm, should I be worried about all this tracking?'
To which Brian Loe responded:
Only if you want to disappear or do something illegal.
Hey, what if your ethnic group falls out of disfavor? The Hutu/Tutsi thing in Rwanda didn't happen all that long ago. Also, I believe the Czechoslovak Federal Republic revoked the citizenship of most or all those of "gypsy descent" not too long ago (http://www.law.nyu.edu/eecr/vol7num2/special/denyingcitizenship.html). Before 1993, a citizen, after it, a non-citizen. Would you, as a non- citizen, really want a long record of your movements, locations, favored hang outs and associates? Even if you buy into the government's line that your ethnicity eats raw kittens, you may not want your former associates to get stigmatized by your previous association with them. After all, think of their children, even if your ethnic group has now been declared to lay eggs, and is therefore sub-human! Or, if you don't happen to believe that all those of Amish descent (or whatever) now belong in concentration camps in North Dakota, will you personally want to engage in "freedom fighting", which the government will almost certainly deem "illegal insurgency"? This is why I never answer polls honestly, always pay cash, vote against all incumbents, delete or modify all cookies in my browser, run anonym.os, use TOR, and never go outside during daylight hours without a fake beard and sunglasses. Yours sincerely, Hagbard Celine -- Bruce Ediger 720-932-1954 eballen1 () qwest net _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Gordon Darling (Oct 30)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" rms (Oct 30)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Brian Loe (Oct 30)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" rms (Oct 30)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Bruce Ediger (Oct 31)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Brian Loe (Oct 31)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Bruce Ediger (Nov 01)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Brian Loe (Nov 01)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Blanchard_Michael (Nov 01)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Brian Loe (Nov 01)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Dude VanWinkle (Nov 01)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Blanchard_Michael (Nov 01)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Drsolly (Nov 01)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Brian Loe (Nov 01)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 02)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" Brian Loe (Oct 30)
- Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness" rms (Oct 30)