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If you've nothing to hide : Comments

By Mirko Bagaric, published 14/8/2008

Privacy legislation: when less is more

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rstuart>"There are a fair few breathtakingly ignorant points in that one statement Steel, but the one that really gets me is your assumption you have some sort of privacy from the government now."

Where did my comment state that I made such an assumption? That was your own.
Posted by Steel, Friday, 15 August 2008 11:54:07 AM
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you gotta admire the way this torture-loving fascist can take 500 years of legal principle and trivialise it as a "middle-class invention".
Posted by bushbasher, Sunday, 17 August 2008 9:59:34 AM
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Oh, Please . . . enlighten me, Mr. Bagaric . . .

Exactly how much UNINHIBITED and, therefore, REAL liberty will we actually have when everyone and their second cousin knows everything there is to know about our private business, which, however harmless and legal it may be, would still be embarrassing?

On the other hand, modern societies positively REJOICE in the nauseating production of voyeuristic television shows with mass audiences AND participants who delight in the revelation of someone else's idiosyncrasies, as well as displays of their own "15 minutes of fame" narcissism. Maybe the majority no longer WANTS any privacy.
Posted by sonofeire, Monday, 18 August 2008 4:23:20 PM
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Gosh the debate is really deep and meaningful and it makes me realise how simple I like to keep life. I belong to the brigade that if you have nothing to hide then a degree of loss of privacy doesn't mean much to me. I don't use on line banking for a start, I don't own shares, or a business so I have an advantage is not being "afraid" and "alert" to potential dangers. I haven't got that much to lose I suppose except my belief in a right to free speech.

One bug about privacy is that it works to protect the guilty at the expense of the innocent. The Skases of this world who salt away millions of dollars of mum and dad superannuation investors. Property scams are rift and yet the news and current affairs programs are so afraid of legal action that we can't be told their names etc.

My biggest bug though is that a person with AIDS can be nursed by my daughter without her having the right to know that there is a major risk factor at work with vomit, urine, tears etc etc. It is all so ho hum and it is her duty to expect that everyone is a potential AIDS risk to her. The problem is with sick people you're too busy thinking about their needs in an emergency to worry about your own. She got bitten helping a woman in a fit once and had to wait weeks for the test results to show she was clear. What of Hepatitis carriers working with food?

Balance is needed by all parties - and without surveillance crime would be the order of the day...how would drug importers and couriers ever get caught?
Posted by Choice, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 5:05:00 AM
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