Privacy under attack, but does anybody care?

[NakedGary]

Link to MSNBC article on privacy and security [A series]

Link to MSNBC article

Link to another MSNBC article "Privacy Nightmares"

[NakedGary]

Link to MSNBC article on privacy and security [A series]

Link to MSNBC article

Link to another MSNBC article "Privacy Nightmares"

[usmc1]

Gary, a lot of us are with you. But, let me ask this of you: Wjen the practice first started, did you oblige and provide your social security number to your doctor, dentist, or credit card firm when they asked. Did you willing provide it to your drivers licensing agency? Your SS# is a unique identifier, the hook by which you can be extracted from any data compilation.

If so, then you are partly to blame. As am I, I protested but it was a losing cause because everyone around me was readily acquiesing and I was told my insurance wouldn't pay unless they had it.

Although on my D.L. I did claim religious exclusion and was assigned a random number and not my SS#

The short version of all this is that it happens because we allow it..too many people take the attitude, "I have nothing to hide, the authorities know what's best."

[Jason Lee]

No place to hide www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15221095/page/3/

Virginia Shelton 46 her daughter Shirley 16 and a friend Jennifer Starkey 17 were all arrested and charged with murder in 2003 because of an out-of-synch ATM camera. Their pictures were flashed in front of a national audience and they spent three weeks in a Maryland jail before it was discovered that the camera was set to the wrong time.

[Naturist Mark]

Homeland Security Monument