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Privacy Concerns Moving Into The Mainstream
Realistic_Dragon writes "The BBC today ran a thoughtful radio article (website, transcript, real audio) on the issues of privacy vs practicality in our modern society. An ideal primer for those that haven't given these things much thought before, with a balanced treatment of the subject and very few technical errors to drive one up the wall.
Listening to the narrator's acerbic comments in reply to those that advocate the innocent have nothing to fear mantra is worth the download alone. Is this the kind of image that is presented in the media in the rest of the world, or are they still running with the 'big brother is your friend' party line?"
Oh great, now everyone knows about my privacy concerns!
The one that I loved the other day was listening to Eddie Mair on PM interviewing the Sudanese Ambassador to the UK, Dr Hasan Abdin.
In the interview, Dr Abdin continually denied there was any humanitarian disaster happening in the Darfur region of Sudan, any government arming of the Janjaweed and so on.
Eddie then calmly said to the Ambassador: "Mr Ambassador, do you sleep well at night?".
Priceless; I've never heard such a pompous arsehole deflated in such spectacular form before. In fact, I think we need to start a new campaign - Eddie Mair for PM!
Life is like a sewer; what you get out of it depends on what you put into it...