[FYI] (Fwd) Silicon.com Leader: Privazzzzzy? Pay attention, your wal

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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> HEADLINE: Privazzzzzy? Pay attention, your wallet's at risk
> PUBLISHED: 5:00pm on Thursday 17th May 2001
> CHANNEL: Ebusiness security
> AUTHOR: editorial@silicon.com
> ARTICLE: http://www.silicon.com/a44481 
> 
> TEXT OF STORY FOLLOWS:
> 
> Privacy is an issue that we keep banging on about here at 
> silicon.com. It wouldn't be surprising if a few of our 
> readers had begun to find their eyes glazing over a little.
> 
> Perhaps your mouse starts to wander towards more exciting 
> subjects such as sex, virus, rock 'n' Linux.
> 
> But the reason we drone on about privacy so often is that 
> it's important, and it's under threat. 
> 
> Today's story, about a far-flung European committee mulling a 
> draft proposal of support for another wordy piece of 
> legislation, would send even a hyperactive speed freak to sleep.
> 
> It would be easy to shrug your shoulders and say: "What the 
> hell. So they want to hang on to my emails for seven years. 
> Let them. They're only trying to catch criminals here."
> 
> But there are two reasons why we should say no. Firstly, our 
> fundamental liberties are at risk here. 
> 
> You may not spend your weekends plotting the violent 
> overthrow of the capitalist system, but that's no reason to 
> give the government permission to rummage around through all 
> your communications, any more than you'd want a Whitehall spy 
> camera in the downstairs loo. It's your ebusiness, you should 
> be able to do it in peace.
> 
> Worse still, we'll be the ones who'll have to pay for it. And 
> it will be mind-blowingly expensive.
> 
> In George Orwell's 1984, everyone has a TV screen, with an 
> "always-on" connection, in their flats to allow the 
> government to watch their every move.
> Orwell never paid much attention to the people behind the TV 
> screen. How many people did they have to employ to watch the 
> entire citizenry? Who monitored them? Who paid their salaries?
> 
> Things were bad enough for lead character Winston Smith, but 
> at least he never got a bill for the 24-hour surveillance of 
> his own living room. 
> 
> Ultimately, you might have to pay for your surveillance 
> through higher internet charges. It might come out of taxes. 
> The government might sell the information to credit reference 
> agencies to foot the bill -- it wouldn't be the first time 
> (check out the links we've provided). 
> 
> So you may not mind your privacy being violated, but no one 
> wants their wallet being squeezed. 
> 
> So join silicon.com in saying: "This madness must stop". 
> 
> And you at the back there! Stop yawning!
> 
> For related news, see:
> Privacy scandal: Dodgy data laws on the way
> http://www.silicon.com/a44456 
> Found: Millions of missing buildings
> http://www.silicon.com/a44118 
> Privacy campaigners outraged by electoral register scandal
> http://www.silicon.com/a43859
> For sale: Your private medical records 
> http://www.silicon.com/a43230
> 
> 
> STORY ENDS
> 
> For more information on silicon.com go to http://www.silicon.com.
> 
> silicon.com - the who, what, when, where and why of ebusiness

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