[Politics4Fun]

And most Americans seem more than happy to simply watch our privacy slip away...

[RightWhale]

‘The Naked Society’ Vance Packard, 1965

Good section on 4th and 5th Amends to the Fed Constitution.

[JRandomFreeper]

Ceiling cat sees everything anyway....

/johnny

[BunnySlippers]

As sad as it is, they are right.

[boogerbear]

He’s right. And there’s not much you can do about it.

[SkyDancer]

Good, lets all of us go and Google “Google” - find out who does what there and then post it all over ... really dig into their private lives ....

[SumProVita]

Not necessarily....which is why I use SCROOGLE SCRAPER. ;-)

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

[SumProVita]

AND...with time, THIS site may improve tremendously:

http://www.cuil.com/

[bvw]

That's not true. I can understand why you would say it though! We have given up just about every privacy expectation in regards commercial transactions in the credit card electronic transaction era. The reason?

Convenience. The same thing with geographic position and speed monitoring like OnStar and now in cell phones -- safety and convenience in the event of unexpected events, accidents, danger, getting lost. Some call it out "data cloud" or "data shadow" or "data footprint" -- it has become huge!

That hugeness of the data is to some extent a mesh curtain -- it provides some privacy. But I agree -- we have given up on closed box privacy.

But what Americans still expect is a form of privacy based on politeness and modesty among those hold and filter that data. We are very upset when our personal data is made public.

THAT is what we MUST hold Google to account on. And hooray for the Pittsburgh family who are fighting this fight!

[mojito]

Google insists there is no privacy from Google. But Google is one of the most secretive corporations in America. For instance, it operates a huge “black box” complex along the Columbia River in Oregon that it refuses to publicly acknowledge.

[ari-freedom]

Scott McNealy (Chairman of Sun Microsystems) interview
Q: A couple of years ago you made some comments about privacy — and the lack thereof — that were widely printed. That was amazingly pre-Patriot Act and pre-9/11. Do you stick by that notion? Should we not be worried about having lost all our privacy?

A: I never said that, did I?

Q: You said, “You already have no privacy.”

A: I said, “You have no privacy. Get over it.”

Q: What did you mean by that?

A: The point I was making was someone already has your medical records. Someone has my dental records. Someone has my financial records. Someone knows just about everything about me.

Gang, do you want to refute my statement? Visa knows what you bought. You have no privacy. Get over it. That’s what I said.

[cva66snipe]

1776 The United States Of America a nation fouunded upon the Declaration of Independence and certain rights later specified in the Constitution

2008 The United States of America owned and operated by corporate board members and CEO's who tell our elected leaders and judges what laws, rights, and freedoms we do or do not have.

[Drumbo]

I've always argued that there is no "right to privacy" in the US Constitution. But, Roe v. Wade, (410 U.S. 113) in 1973, before the United States Supreme Court resulted in a landmark decision regarding abortion finding that laws against abortion in the United States violated "a constitutional right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment".

The opinion of the Roe Court, written by Justice Harry Blackmun asserted that the "right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy."

The Roe majority rested its opinion squarely on the Constitution's due process clause and the "right of privacy".

Its either the law, or it ain't FRiends. Therefore, Google’s cameras gotta go or Roe must be overturned, wouldn't ya think? The "hypocrisy is breathtaking".