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It was coincidental how my lecture on “Privacy and Security” in CIS came right after Donald Kerr’s testimony to our Congress. Kerr spoke in regards to United States citizens “privacy” and “anonymity.” On Sunday he said,

“Privacy no longer can mean anonymity…Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information.”

-Donald Kerr, November 11th, 2007

Personally, I believe that it is not the government’s job to “safeguard” anything of mine. Sure its not as convenient, but I get really, really uncomfortable when I hear about government regulations on anything of mine, especially my right to privacy. Maybe I’m being cynical and paranoid, but this doesn’t sit comfortably with me at all.

I’m strongly against the government regulating two things, information and my body. Information because well, I don’t want anyone to control the things I can and can’t know. I think we all have the right to know anything and everything that anyone else does, no one should be able to select what is “appropriate” for me to know. My body because I don’t want someone to tell me what I can and can’t do with my own flesh. I don’t want anyone telling me what I can and can’t put in my body, nor what I can do with my body. Want to drink yourself into a coma at age 14? Go for it. Abort babies? Right on. Let people do with their bodies what they want, because I believe that no one has any business with anyone else’s body. It is their responsibility to their own body to take care of it, and to maintain it as they wish.

God Orwell must be flipping in his grave right now.

Edit 11/17/07 2:00PM: More fun news about our privacy slipping away, Facebook is letting employees/companies see your private profile. Those pictures you have of you and your bros getting trashed might come back to bite you!