Privacy Vs. Non-Privacy

Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?

Our societies have unfolded and taken on the belief that it's "safe" and perfectly acceptable to allow our privacies to be invaded, adopting views that it would be an almost impossible plight to conquer even if in disagreement. People simply don't have the energy and have abandoned to
 wave the banner to defend rights of privacy, as the current to the river, washing all values and moral ethics, has become too strong to fight against.

We now have in our midst defeated individuals who are willing to forsake their privacies in not wanting to cause ripples and sound overly dramatic, as the tide seems to be in favor of those who relish satiating their curiosities at whim without taking into consideration the repercussions of their actions and how, in the long run, such actions will only lead to more unstable societies.

For the parents that have tried and failed, the next generations suffer the lack of precious values which should be instilled in the moral fabric of their upbringing.

In the weighing of ethics, where does one draw the threshold as to what is acceptable as opposed to what isn't? How can we use our moral judgment when the majority populace have been programmed and conditioned by uncontrolled media to believe that 'privacy invasion' doesn't exist, and to just go along with the 'normal flow' of what our so-called democratic societies are sweeping us with and implanting more seeds to keep that corrupt flow going?

Cause and Effect

There was a time when if one so much as dared to take a picture of someone out in the public, that a person who had been "snapshotted" could pull the film out of that individual's camera, but then complaints of "abused cameras" led to new by-laws which contradicted a person's public privacy. In other words, "don't touch my personal possession (camera) ", but this left a loophole in the system that granted the "camera-voyeurs" to snapshot anyone at their convenience as long as their cameras were untouched. Film included.

 
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Very good article and thought provoking.

Posted on 09/11/2008 at 9:09:20 PM

To your Poll survey my answer is (A).

Posted on 05/01/2008 at 10:05:41 AM

I came across your blogger: http://mckennitt-vs-ash.blogspot.com/ . I left a few comments there and then found your article here. Good info and do agree!

Posted on 05/01/2008 at 10:05:47 AM

What blogger?

Posted on 05/01/2008 at 9:05:58 AM

I agree! I left a couple of comments in your blogger. Thank you so much! It's about time someone spoke up.

Posted on 04/23/2008 at 4:04:45 PM

Excellent article Shan-Lyn!!

Posted on 03/24/2008 at 9:03:29 PM

Grounds of intent to psychologically harm with no substantial REASON in setting a course to flag the blog. Should have explained it better. Yes privacy is a very sensitive reality even down to "small potatoes".

Posted on 02/28/2008 at 10:02:40 AM

Rebecca, I was just browsing this author's articles and came upon your comment. Maybe your example is not such small potatoes. I'm trying to find the link of some news article where some people thought to "flag" someone's blog in a PRIVATE ZONE. The creator of the blog had granted them person access by trust. They didn't believe the blog was private. Duuh. The blog disappeared, the creator tried to retrieve it but it was a no-go and then almost went nuts by betrayal and loss of private data stored, and hunted THEIR privacies down, and all they could lament was that they had a right to their privacy. Principles flared, case went to court and ruled in favor of the blog owner!! Grounds of intent to psychologically harm with no substantial evidence. Trust of privacy is regarded in courts. Just like McKennitt who trusted Ash? Do we have the right to destroy the trust and privacies of others, and then to claim privacy rights for ourselves? I think not.

Posted on 02/28/2008 at 10:02:01 AM

A good article but too brief to the point with not enough examples except for the McKennitt/Ash case. On the one hand, I do agree with MasterPo. Privacy CAN be a double-edged sword. Small eg.: I had once created a website within guidelines, some people didn't like it, made a complaint to MSN, site was removed, I asked MSN who complained, and the response? "We cannot disclose that information due to our privacy policy". People CAN use privacy to do dastardly deeds. I then asked MSN if they could restore the "non-public site" and response never came. The people who hid behind the privacy policy knew they could get away with it. How could it affect anyone if the site was hidden from public view and only for personal usage with other people? Did it make them feel better to destroy someone's right for natural expression and all the creativity that went into it? On the other hand, it was my right to make the site "private". The eg. is small potatoes for bigger realities.

Posted on 02/28/2008 at 9:02:50 AM

Interesting article about a serious subject, Shan- Lyn.

Posted on 02/25/2008 at 5:02:32 PM

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