Comment credit history != (Score 1) 666
Ellison states in the article:
``Well, this privacy you're concerned about is largely an illusion,'' he said. ``All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy. Right now, you can go onto the Internet and get a credit report about your neighbor and find out where your neighbor works, how much they earn and if they had a late mortgage payment and tons of other information.''
The only reason this illusion still exists to the average Joe Citizen is because he/she for the most part hasn't been made aware of the fact that their privacy really is that thin. Like the "shopping cards" at Krogers that track your shopping habits and the browser cookies that track your browsing habits. If consumers were handed a sheaf of all the information that a no-name citizen can collect about them through legal means, the citizens would demand reform.
Furthermore, even if this level of invasion is justified, does Ellison really think that the terrorists' ID cards and figerprints would have denied them access to the flights that they boarded? It sounds so much like a corporate knee-jerk reaction, or an attempt to grab a share of a potentially lucrative opening market...
``Well, this privacy you're concerned about is largely an illusion,'' he said. ``All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy. Right now, you can go onto the Internet and get a credit report about your neighbor and find out where your neighbor works, how much they earn and if they had a late mortgage payment and tons of other information.''
The only reason this illusion still exists to the average Joe Citizen is because he/she for the most part hasn't been made aware of the fact that their privacy really is that thin. Like the "shopping cards" at Krogers that track your shopping habits and the browser cookies that track your browsing habits. If consumers were handed a sheaf of all the information that a no-name citizen can collect about them through legal means, the citizens would demand reform.
Furthermore, even if this level of invasion is justified, does Ellison really think that the terrorists' ID cards and figerprints would have denied them access to the flights that they boarded? It sounds so much like a corporate knee-jerk reaction, or an attempt to grab a share of a potentially lucrative opening market...
