Richard Smith Moves From Privacy To Safety

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 8, 2001 @11:58AM from the sleep-with-one-eye-open dept.

griffjon writes: "Wired has an article on Richard M. Smith's (the other RMS) retirement from The Privacy Foundation to focus on safety using personal information, saying 'Most citizens, including me, have now put privacy concerns on the back burner. Sept. 11 completely changed everything, and one of the things it changed is that people are far less concerned about what the private sector is doing with information, and far more concerned about what the government is doing to keep them safe.'" I hope that he'll be keeping an eye out for privacy violations regardless.

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Fool. by forkspoon · 2001-11-08 13:03 · Score: 3, Interesting

Those who oppose freedom and civil liberties want exactly this - it is the definition of terrorism and a fundamental rule of war to psychologically terrorise your opponent. By abadoning core values for conveinience and "safety", one hands a victory to their opponent. This perspective is the policy equivalent to runny away from a bully.

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Travis
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