The Privacy Debate

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Shackmsg'd. : jopapa (#3181)

as the privacy advocates realize that they must now burn off all of their fingerprints and they still need to find some way to scramble their DNA.



HAR HAR MISTAR FUNNY MAN.

You can "turn off" your fingerprints by simply wearing gloves. Don't drop any hair or blood and you can avoid DNA contamination. Having a chip implanted is not so easy to "turn off", hence their concern.

-J

hmm.. are privacy and anonimity the same thing?

As long as no one passes a law mandating that we all wear these things, all it'll mean to most of us is we get to just wave our hand through a scanner or something rather than whipping out our driver's license. Not mandatory to have, but convenient. The banks'll love it.

But, a couple more buildings get blown up and someone WILL pass such a law.

" Seriously, it's just a matter of time before the technology is available to quickly identify anyone who walks through the door, nametag or not. What then? Make sure to post anonymously! "


And it's not long before the technology exists to clone human beings too, does that mean we have to do it just because the technology exists? I am against both a national ID database and cloning human beings.

question: what good reason do people have to expect privacy in public places? (including quasi-public places, like shopping malls) it's one thing to not want big brother watch you in your home, but I can't think of a big downside to public areas being monitored.

Its not the fact that nobody CARES who we are, and we're just numbers etc. Its the fact that the more privacy rights we get rid of in the name of safety the more we COULD get fucked.
Sure its a small chance that anything will happen to you, but that there is a CHANCE that it could happen is all that matters. If everyone has a nice littly happy chip implanted into them for "convience" hah, or to help fight terrorism bad things could happen, and will happen. The days of having supreme faith in our government are over. I also love the fact that because misuse of our identity is a criminal act, you think that we're safe from it.
Wake up motherfucker, people will mess with your idenity just because they can.

Jack Daniels does a pretty good job of scrambling DNA. Just look in most trailerparks, where a lesser form (Beer) is also working well.

i will be the first in line for this.

imagine having your drivers license, credit cards, ss# and health information coded in the chip. no more wallet needed!

i hate carrying around all that crap.

There's no such thing as privacy anyway, it's a false concept in today's reality. People need to just get used to it and get on with their lives. Also, remember that the internet is a public place too. I hate it when people get all indignant and falsely outraged over their privacy being breached in some way. Talk about an overblown sense of self-importance: nobody cares about anyone personally anyway, we're just a number or a name in posession of other numbers (ss#, dob, credit card, whatever) with an identity assigned to us by the gov't. Of course, in the wrong hands our "identity" info can be misused - but that's a criminal act and subject to severe penalties under law. But no one should be any more worried about it than they would be that a stranger passing them on a crowded city street might randomly just take a swing at them for no reason. Could that happen? Sure could, but who actually worries that each and every single random person they pass in the street might suddenly jump them for no reason?

bah. damn liberals, they complainm so much because they have small breasts and tiny penises.

Think of it this way. If chicks could buy a small gadget that could read your identity, job, salary and so forth most men would never get any chicks. You could never scam when she knows your a janitor. :)~~~

theres nothing wrong with wanting to be anonomous. I have plenty to hide although im not commiting crimes.

when they start implanting this into out-patients as a mandatory thing, THEN thats when people should start bitching and stuff
until then, if you dont want it, dont get it!

this is bad news.... that is all

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big deal???