This discussion is best continued here: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic Joe grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:33:43 +1000 > Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> >> Perhaps the solution is not greater bureaucracy to safeguard data >> ignorance, >> > > I certainly wasn't suggesting bureaucracy, my country has more than > enough already, and we all know that laws are framed to allow > governments to do exactly what they forbid other people to do. > >> but greater personal responsibility and a reassessment of >> what privacy "rights" are unreasonable expectations? > > I was suggesting that perhaps many people are leaking more information > about themselves than they think, a lot of it with long expiry dates. > I don't really care about people knowing that I was a Scout in my > childhood, or what I bought in one of my local supermarkets last week, > but I'd rather not publish the list of organisations I belonged to last > week. (No, there aren't any embarrassing ones, but that's not the > point). > > Collectively that leaked data could cause unexpected harm to them, > either financially or otherwise. Yes, 'responsibility'. Every now and > then, I Google my full name in various combinations, and no personal > reference to me ever appears in at least the first ten pages. I like it > that way. > > We may have wandered off the point. >
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