Josh nailed it. There is a good paper out there discussing the link between privacy and liberty. I can't recall the paper's name making my googling (irony, anyone?) ineffective. If I find it, I will forward a link. Eric On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Alan Dayley > wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Frank wrote: > >> It really isn't any different to ISP's knowledge of our online > activities > >> now... I think its actually better since Google is fully upfront about > their > >> access to our online activities! > >> Privacy is important, but on the internet, we've never had it... I don't > >> really understand the uproar directed at Google, if anything, its better > >> that so much is stored in one place... the more there is, the harder it > is > >> to track unless they have good reason. If you're doing nothing illegal > on > >> the internet, I don't see why people worry? > > > > If it were financially feasible to do so, it sounds like you would > > have no problem with a having a police officer follow you and watch > > you 24/7. After all, you would not do anything illegal, right? > > > > Alan > > Im with you on this... the evaporation of our privacy is a very very > scary thing and a dangerous threat to our liberty. > > -jmz > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Eric Cope http://cope-et-al.com