From: Doug Franklin
On 2012-12-18 23:23, Tom C wrote:
In what way I ask. There's certainly much I don't know. Are you
referring to the concept of personal privacy or the state of personal
privacy (i.e. the ease with which it can be invaded and trampled
upon)? I understand privacy can be invaded in any number of ways, but
never in human history have major portions of populations, via
technology, enabled powers to clandestinely track them, including
their whereabouts, contacts, purchases, transactions, etc.
If I understand the argument correctly, it's about expectation of
privacy. The argument seems to go along the lines of how, outside
fairly recent Western societies, privacy didn't really exist due to the
living conditions, to the extent that no one really thought much about
it, much less agonized over whether it was a right, a privilege, a
circumstance, or a symptom.
I would argue that it dates back at least into the 17th Century. The
writings of the Enlightenment philosophers & scientists clearly had
profound effect upon the founding fathers and are reflected in the
Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The right to privacy is implicit in the 3rd & 4th Amendments and to a
lesser extent in the 5th & 6th.
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