Digital Home Thoughts: Computing Privacy Outlook Cloudy

"The paper does a good job separating out the thinking here, and explaining why the Fourth Amendment absolutely should apply to information you store online. As it notes, while the Smith case said that phone numbers dialed might not be private, that did not extend to the contents of the phone call itself. And that's key"

The only way to keep a secret is to not tell anyone. That is the general principle I have when it comes to information. If I do not want the world to know of my hidden love for Japanese hip hop, that I believe that bacon should be its own food group or that I think that the Carebears franchise deserves a "reboot" I do not tell anyone. Anything that I tell a company, I accept the fact that they might share it with someone else short of any privacy policy they have posted. The only exception to this for me, would be data stored by the government. As a critical part of life that functions for the community, information that the government stores about me (whatever that is) should be considered private. I am sure that some of you out there believe that this should be imposed on companies as well, but why?