On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:33:43 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Perhaps the solution is not greater bureaucracy to safeguard data > ignorance, > I certainly wasn't suggesting bureaucracy, my country has more than enough already, and we all know that laws are framed to allow governments to do exactly what they forbid other people to do. > but greater personal responsibility and a reassessment of > what privacy "rights" are unreasonable expectations? I was suggesting that perhaps many people are leaking more information about themselves than they think, a lot of it with long expiry dates. I don't really care about people knowing that I was a Scout in my childhood, or what I bought in one of my local supermarkets last week, but I'd rather not publish the list of organisations I belonged to last week. (No, there aren't any embarrassing ones, but that's not the point). Collectively that leaked data could cause unexpected harm to them, either financially or otherwise. Yes, 'responsibility'. Every now and then, I Google my full name in various combinations, and no personal reference to me ever appears in at least the first ten pages. I like it that way. We may have wandered off the point. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140419100439.27044be8@jretrading.com