Security vs Privacy or what's left from it

My latest privacy related posts had to do with "The Future of Privacy = don't over-empower the watchers!" and "Data mining, terrorism and security" in respect to the the still active TIA and the hopes for the effectiveness out of data mining. While these are important topics I feel every decent citizen living in the 21st century should be aware of -- many still "think conspiracies" than real-life scenarios. At the bottom line, privacy violations for the sake of your security and civil liberties are a common event these days!



Today, I came across an article "Google must capitulate to DoJ, says judge" in relation to the DoJ's subpoena trying to get access to random sites and searches in order to justify its statement that anti-porn filters do not protect young children online.


The NYtimes is also a running a story on this. What I truly liked is US District Judge James Ware's comment that he was reluctant to give the Justice Department everything it wanted because of the "perception by the public that this is subject to government scrutiny" when they type search terms into Google.com, that's right, but you would be also right to conclude that such requests would turn into a habit given Google's data aggregation power. It's s a complex process to run the world's most popular search engine when everyone wants to take a bite from you, at least they have hell of motto to sort of guide them in future situations like this, but is it?



This time it's a misjudged online porn request that gets approved, next time, it would be Google against the terrorists, again, for the sake of your Security, one backed up by a little bit of glue as on the majority of occasions!



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