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NYT Discovers the Panopticon
Erris writes "Should we be surprised at the NYT attacking search engines? This article seeks to blame Google for all privacy loss, as if someone else remembering and sharing the things YOU publish is worse than credit card purchase databases, phone records, credit records being created and shared by OTHERS without your consent. Libraries must really be evil."
Only criminals need to hide
Perhaps the New York Times should take their database of archived articles off line, since some of the people depicted in their stories would probably prefer if other people couldn't read about certain things they did.
Uhh...So, if the New York Times quoted someone advocating the overthrow of the government, then by that logic the reporters and editors of the paper should also grab their guns and march on Washington. That's some interesting logic; a paper should immediately assume the ideology of people it quotes.