03-28-2017, 04:06 PM
The only exceptions that I can see for denying privacy to web activity is a compelling need to thwart or investigate criminal misconduct. Criminal acts do not get any right of privacy. There might be value to sellers if buyers can be linked, but people shopping usually don't need any prodding. Tough luck may it be to people who use the Web to commit wire fraud, disseminate or purchase child pornography, deal drugs or weapons illegally, launder money, get involved in terrorist acts, or seek aid in committing crimes.
I can imagine the potential for abuse. If you search for the words "cancer" or "diabetes" on the web or read a story on either, will you lose your health insurance? Does your employer really need to know that you loathe Donald Trump? Are you trying to organize a union contrary to your employer's wishes? You could be fired.
I can imagine the potential for abuse. If you search for the words "cancer" or "diabetes" on the web or read a story on either, will you lose your health insurance? Does your employer really need to know that you loathe Donald Trump? Are you trying to organize a union contrary to your employer's wishes? You could be fired.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.