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Rick Falkvinge, founder of the original Pirate Party, now living in Germany, has published four parts so far of series on analog equivalent privacy rights. He plans to have 21 parts in all. The series starts out early on with the point that there is no reason for the offline liberties of our parents to not be carried over into the same online liberties for our children and examines this point from different directions. So far he has posted in detail on the following topics over at Private Internet Access' blog:
- Our children should have the same rights as our parents
- The analog, anonymous letter
- Posting an Anonymous Public Message
- Our children have lost Privacy of Location
Rick will post more over the next few weeks. The current batch of adults and teenagers are likely the last generation to have any choice in the matter. Apathy and ignorance abound and deciding not to decide is still, sadly, a choice.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday December 19 2017, @07:25AM (1 child)
Sifting through microfiche was more common than you think. I had to do it often in college fro two different fields of research. It was indexed (sort of). And one got pretty good at it.
Old land records often exist in no other forms in many places. And yes one could occasionally find records of fraudulent transactions in the microfiche.
But fraud was harder in those days, you had to do more of it in person. Now you can hide in your mom's basement and commit fraud
half way around the world.
There never was a right to be forgotten. And NOW is exactly the wrong time in history to introduce such a right.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19 2017, @10:35AM
Exactly: You did it for research. You probably would not have done it in order to check on your new neighbour, unless you already had some very concrete suspicion.