redifining privacy?---leaving it/trusting it to the gov or business?

this is a post from yesterday that deserves more discussion:
NO NO NO NO

Forum Name Latest Breaking News
Topic subject Government seeks to redefine privacy
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3062297#3062297
3062297, Government seeks to redefine privacy
Posted by kellenburger on Sun Nov-11-07 07:00 AM

Source: Associated press

WASHINGTON - A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy...

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071111/ap_on_go_ot/terrorist_surveillance ;_ylt=Ag3n8RRKhNSBU_iJvFKCs4Gs0NUE
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.WASHINGTON - As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.

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Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people's private communications and financial information.

Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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Kerr said at an October intelligence conference in San Antonio that he finds concerns that the government may be listening in odd when people are "perfectly willing for a green-card holder at an (Internet service provider) who may or may have not have been an illegal entrant to the United States to handle their data."

He noted that government employees face up to five years in prison and $100,000 in fines if convicted of misusing private information.

Millions of people in this country — particularly young people — already have surrendered anonymity to social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, and to Internet commerce. These sites reveal to the public, government and corporations what was once closely guarded information, like personal statistics and credit card numbers.

"Those two generations younger than we are have a very different idea of what is essential privacy, what they would wish to protect about their lives and affairs. And so, it's not for us to inflict one size fits all," said Kerr, 68. "Protecting anonymity isn't a fight that can be won. Anyone that's typed in their name on Google understands that."

illegal wiretapping.

That's pure chutzpah, baby!

I like to be free to go about my business, to live my life, without observation and comment by others.

Any way this is looked at, it's CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION!!!!

Not what I say or type. Regardless of what others think of their definitions that displeases each other, it will never satisfy the police state that want total control yet realize this will never happen. This is our safe haven in which each and every one of us should make the most of.

It is the Information Age because the two dominant institutions of our day, corporations and governments, have increasing amounts of information about everything.