Pulling plug on privacy; How technology helped make the 4th Amendment obsolete

The Daily ^ | June 22, 2011 | Alex Kozinski and Stephanie Grace

[Paladin2]

Too bad that the Druids didn’t secure their IP.

[Daffynition]

Hotlinked ...it's a fun site grouping all the *henges*....I love the internet!

[Daffynition]

LOL...then there are the wannabes........

[Still Thinking]

Too bad that the Druids didn’t secure their IP.

SCO probably bought the IP and everyone in this thread is in the process of getting sued!

[MichiganMan]

Not everyone has a smart phone, not everyone shops at a super market that has loyalty programs, not everyone uses GPS in their cars, and not everyone lives in a part of the country that has toll roads or SmartPass.

Your second points not withstanding, don't be too smug about much of your first.

Location tracking works with any cell phone that connects to towers, IOW, any cell phone. Actual GPS might be even more exact, but simple triangulation of cell towers is close enough for the concerns expressed in this article.

And you may not use the loyalty programs (I don't either) but I bet you do use your credit/debit card (I do) You know, the one with your name on it... IOW, the store gets the same info with only the minor bother of matching the name to the record of sale. Now, true they don't automatically have your address from that like they might with a loyalty card, but that's usually a computer key away to people that actually use this stuff.

And you're correct about toll roads, but with OnStar and the aforementioned cell phone data, that too is becoming an academic point.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I’m not saying that I’m unconcerned about my personal information being sold, used and abused by corporate interests, from banks to Google to my cell phone provider, etc. I am. I’m just MORE concerned about government agencies such as the IRS and, as Daffynition mentioned in post #9, our medical privacy when our medical records are available on line.

If we don’t elect a conservative president next year, Obamacare will most likely be here to stay and our medical privacy will be history. God forbid Obama gets re-elected.

I try to use cash as much and as practical as possible, but like you, I sometimes use debit cards, mostly to purchase stationery products, postage, magazines, etc. Prescription drugs get paid for with cash.