Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse
by SCHiM on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:45PM
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We'll first of all it's turtles all the way down. Like all morality there isn't an absolute answer that tells us what is good or bad in a secular setting.
So the thing that comes closest is the culture and history we've been carrying with us. And that the 'right' to privacy has been a 'right' for a long time (eg. the right to private conversations and mail etc.)
Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse
by pjlegato on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @06:04PM
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Only in western democracies. In Russia and China, for example, the government has the legal right to monitor any communication whatsoever, and always has.
So the thing that comes closest is the culture and history we've been carrying with us. And that the 'right' to privacy has been a 'right' for a long time (eg. the right to private conversations and mail etc.)