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While I don't disagree, it's still hard to turn a blind eye to the Texas church shootings, or the Las Vegas shootings, or the NY park pickup truck slaughter. A
by dhimes 9y ago
While I don't disagree, it's still hard to turn a blind eye to the Texas church shootings, or the Las Vegas shootings, or the NY park pickup truck slaughter. Any politician that just throws up his arms and says "it all just statistics" is likely out of a job.
Privacy invasion has to be stopped by law. There is no way, currently, for a person who has public safety as a responsibility to say "no" to this kind of technology.
It's much the same with businesses invading user privacy and using it to drive profits. Without a law forbidding it, everyone has to keep up with the profits of the most "evil" corporation.
We need explicit laws.
- avs733 9y agoThat is perfectly fair, but I think to a larger extent than they realize politicians drive public discourse and narrative. I'm not saying do nothing, i'm simply saying that more often than not the TSA and their methods have been shown to be utterly inept. Just because it is logistically simpler for me I bring 'contraband' on every flight I take...hundreds of flights, never even been noticed. (Most/Many) of us live in a state that declared war on a plant and is losing and the majority of people accept it for no other reason than its the narrative presented to them. I'm not against doing something, I'm against counting doing anything as equivalent to doing something productive.
- dhimes 9y agoI'm against counting doing anything as equivalent to doing something productive. I completely agree with you.
- TheCoelacanth 9y ago> Any politician that just throws up his arms and says "it all just statistics" is likely out of a job. They get away with that when it comes to gun control, why not with privacy too?
- avs733 9y agoNRA yearly budget 220-250musd EFF yearly budget 9musd...and they have a complicated history with active political engagement. ACLU yearly budget 133musd Both the EFF and ACLU do a lot more than just privacy. The NRA does one thing...and they are really good at it. They also have language in the constitution they can mis-interpret. For privacy we are left with the abstractness of unenumerated rights.