[SpamCop-Social] Re: Privacy et al

[Mr K. Mean]

On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 22:47:05 -0500, Miss Betsy wrote:


> "Frog Prince" <me> wrote in message
> news:b1q003$5n4$1
>> http://www2.cio.com/research/security/edit/a12232002.html
>>
>> Conserve Privacy
> 
> Scott has some good points.  Every time I see those cameras at
> intersections that control the lights, I think of 1984.  Yet, in some
> ways, our privacy is not being eroded, just the way in which people know
> things is different.  In a small town people know you and your business
> and it is not always a bad thing - like cameras in mall parking lots for
> security are little different from front porch sitters who see who is
> going where and with whom.  Yet the potential is there and how to update
> one's rights to keep tyrants in check without losing the "good" is
> challenging.
> 
> Miss Betsy

Government is always a balance between law and order and security, and
personal freedoms and privacy.  Depending on where you stand, you would
still value all of them, but at different levels.  Traffic lights take
away freedoms to drive through any intersection when every you want, but
most people give up this right for their and other's safety.  Law and
order can be a good thing, but it can also be abused.  Where does
monitoring parking lots to promote safely become abusive and intrusive? Is
there a point where some laws should be passed and enforced despite what
the majority thinks (the Civil Rights movement of the 60s) for everybody's
good?  How do you juggle all those different things?