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76 sats \ 5 replies \ @Wumbo 25 Mar \ on: Random Privacy Issues On My Cruise privacy

I appreciate the first hand info.

You mentioned:

I have the real sense that the world has changed, and I have lost my will to resist these privacy invasions

Is your wife a privacy minded individual?

Reason I ask is I found one family's desire to travel to be one of the more problematic activities and I can see how one would stop resisting the privacy invasions. One side wants to have a nice relaxing vacation while the other side has strong privacy principles they don't want to comprise on.

If this is the case any advice/experience you could share on how to manage this family dynamic? Without having both sides being grumpy.

131 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 OP 25 Mar

Regarding my wife, she does share my privacy values in theory. In practice, she is far more willing to trade privacy for convenience than me. Regarding the friends we travelled with: My oldest childhood friend is a state government employee. He turned to me when we were getting scanned and said "Big Brother is here. No more privacy " He then laughed and said "good thing we're not criminals." I reflexively said " until they decide we are ", but left it at that.

76 sats \ 0 replies \ @clownworld 26 Mar

You should watch this.

76 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 25 Mar

Is this your friend who watches the lesbian on msnbc?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 25 Mar

No. Different friend. That friend won't leave his DC apartment until the bolsheviks are in the streets. (So in a few months)

76 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 25 Mar

Good response, it's not up to us to decide if we are criminals or suspects or future criminals or suspects.

Applying this to a global scale, and most people have absolutely no idea if they would break laws in some foreign country just by going about their day.