POST 9 : Privacy ? We are never alone.

Normally, posts from this blog would contain a random story or a paragraph that is not very related to the main topic. This post is special, the topic to be discussed here is an issue that most people does not realize. It may seem to be unimportant or it may not be an issue when it is summarized into a few words but when it is talked about, it becomes a global problem.

PRIVACY is what this post shall talk about. As said, it will not be as controversial as other issues so let us proceed. Massimo Calabresi wrote an article about privacy and why is this a huge problem for the people.

" On Jan. 23, the court said the FBI violated the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure when it used global-positioning-system signals to track a suspected drug dealer for four weeks without a valid warrant, even though the cops monitored only where the suspect went on public streets. Thanks to that decision, for the first time in American history there is now a legal right to privacy in public."

This merely represented how unprivate our lives are. Is one never really at a private place ? A further (and may be unnecessary ) knowledge about privacy issues is the surveillance cameras inside ladies' dressing rooms. Emphasizing on LADIES because most targets of privacy criminals are women. Just google the words "surveillance" and "Dressing rooms" has tons of results that they exist. Even in public restrooms.



"In a pending case from Texas, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether the police have the right to search, without a warrant, historical data from cell-phone companies showing the movements of phones' owners."

 Massimo Calabresi posted his article on the 12th of march, 2012 and probably the pending case as shown above probably happened a few years before Massimo could write the article. What if some phones are actually being tracked right this moment ? That's a major violation of someone's privacy. Nobody would ever feel safe anymore.


Although everything seems to sound negative because of the hidden cameras in suspicious places and unwanted searches of one's location. But what if the government is doing this for the sake of everybody's safety? This act may have saved thousands of lives and we would not know any of it because it is also done privately so criminals would not have a clue either.

It is like Newton's 3rd law of motion, "For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction". Relating this to what the government is doing, They probably do such acts to chase drug dealers or terrorists but then some people abuse this kind of power and use it for themselves. It may be scary, but it may have saved your life once.





All quotations are from Massimo calabresi's article : Privacy in public