61 sats \ 10 replies \ @freetx 5 Apr \ parent \ on: The Truth about Bank Privacy privacy
If you go to places like HackerNews, the "tech class" has now flipped. In 80s-90s the tech industry was dominated cypher-punk ethos....gpg....encryption...freedom, etc.
As younger workers came into those industries the attitudes have flipped 180. They now say "its no big deal" and even welcome the surveillance state.
Its hard to imagine a more blatant violation of the 4th amendment than the Banking Secrecy Act (and all that followed), however no one dares mention it.
They now say "its no big deal" and even welcome the surveillance state.
I have a friend who's several years younger than me and he had an interesting perspective about lost privacy. His view was that privacy is an unnatural and possibly unhealthy human condition, that didn't exist in small tribes.
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10 years ago an acquaintance said the right to privacy violates the nonaggression principle.
Really ? Seriously?
I still don’t see it
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I could imagine an argument along the lines "If you put your information where I can see it, then I have no obligation not to look."
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But invasions of privacy are … invasive lol
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The point would be that you can't require other people to avoid seeing your information, because you don't own them or their eyeballs.
If you keep your information hidden on your property, then no one would have a right to violate your privacy.
It just seems like an example of "All rights are property rights."
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I should have been clearer.
I interpreted a right to privacy as what you describe in paragraph 2.
Of course I can’t control or require what people can’t see etc.
That seems like an extreme version of privacy rights.
My financial information is confidential except for the financial institutions that store my financial data.
Privilege with doctors and lawyers is not public information and I want to keep it that way
“All rights are property rights”
My initial thought is that does not sound so terrible
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That's an interesting point. It's certainly true that the modern notion of privacy would have been nonsensical for most of human history, especially pre-agricultural history when humans evolved.
Not sure what to do with that knowledge, though.
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Yeah, me neither. It's not like there was some analogue of the modern panopticon back then, either.
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Crazy but logical
The keyword is tribe vs individual
I actually think it’s the opposite
What does your friend think of amendment 4?
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I imagine he's in favor, but it hasn't come up.
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