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I have two cents to put on this one.
Switzerland has strange practices too. They need a certain amount of names on a petition and automatically, it becomes a referendum which will be voted by the population. You want abortion illegal? Just get enough names on your list and it will be voted on. Also, criminals are in the papers in Switzerland. You killed someone? Your picture is in the paper. You were busted with drugs? In the paper. You lost your permit for drunk driving? In the paper.
Is that an abuse of privacy? Well, different places have different rules.
I wouldn't want the whole country to know that I make barely more than 20 grand a year, but it happens to be true.
I have very little to hide.
And I don't mind wire taps.
I'm weird, I know. I just don't value my privacy that much in that sense.
So long as you don't install webcams in my home, I'm ok with it.
Everyone's income is public...or NO ONE's income becomes public. At least, make it fair for all.
Justice for all.
But now that I think of it... If your income is over 100 grand a year, doesn't that make you a target for telemarketers and crooks? Is that fair? They wouldn't bother me once they see my shit income.
So it's not fair after all.
Just thinking out loud here.
Red Collar, I've had to think about your comments and I've come to the conclusion that you should move to Norway. BWAHAHAHAH!!!!
Dude, I'm not down with the public income disclosure in any form except for public officials.
Dude, we're fucked. Norway is coming to America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMe5dOgbu40
A pox on all those who voted for ObaMao, both the dead and those just brain-dead but alive.
See yah on FOD.
What about other disclosures? With a couple of clicks in Texas, I can see your judicial history, any arrests, marriages, divorces, judgments for and against, etc. Many states print home sales in the paper. Many employers now require a HIPA waiver that allows them to search your medical history before employment. Most now require a waiver granting them to do a background check and drug test, as do public school volunteer waivers. Prior salary information is required by most employers, yet there is no confidentiality required on their end for what they will do with that information.
I sat through a presentation this week by a "consumer analytics" company, one of five that were exhibiting at the conference I attended. They can drill down 4500 different categories of consumer spending preferences for up to 7 members of a household in any given trade area. In short, they can tell you +/- a 1.3% error margin, what brand of shoes each member of my family prefers. We don't have nearly the privacy we think we have - both from government intrusion and through the information we unknowingly provide.
Paul, the longer my comment went, the less and less enthoused I got.
My point today is that I still don't care, but like Harper just said: You know somebody else is gonna profit from that shit.
SIDENOTE: A woman in Canada was convicted of fraud and moved to the USA. She had this thing for opening homes for senior citizens, robbing them blind. When it got in the news that she was running at least two homes in the US west coast, a lot of people wondered why the info didn't cross the border with her.
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