>From: Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net>
>
> > Zero Powers wrote:
> > To the contrary it will help to assure that
> > > totalitarianism is never able to take hold.
> > Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> > ...'power equivalent ubiquitous transparency' cannot possibly
> > exist, except as a propaganda piece used to dupe people into
> > surrendering their civil rights.
>
>Do we really have a civil right to privacy? I know we have always
>assumed that we do, but suppose I have one of those cool airplane
>thingies with the 18 gram camera in it, 15 cm wingspan, 75 gram
>total. I fly it over your house and for some reason I like to gawk
>at you. Have I actually broken any laws?
The courts have recognized (created) a right of privacy, but it is not an
absolute right. It can be abridged to further a "compelling" state
interest. If you gawk at me in the privacy of my residence you are a
"peeping Tom" and yes you have broken the law. If you follow me around as I
walk down a public sidewalk and record everytime I pick my nose or scratch
my nether regions you are a nosy busybody, but generally speaking you have
not broken the law. However many states now have laws against "stalking,"
which you might run afoul of with your nosy little airplane thingy.
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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