September 2, 2010
Learn How A Person's Privacy Is Defenseless Against Consumer Profiling
Research has shown when it comes to an individual's privacy being protected for identification in specific categories, very little has been done on a world wide basis. Of course there are a myriad of laws that, in general, tend to protect individuals having their privacy invaded.
This has become more apparent on a daily basis by the number of celebrities filing lawsuits against newspapers, magazines, and others who have invaded their privacy.
Every one knows that a person has the right to protect the privacy of their home by shooting an intruder. However, there apparently no laws in place to protect someone's privacy from being invaded by profiling.
Needless to say, filing a lawsuit against a computer database for invading someone's privacy would be a bit tough to enforce since modern day invasions of confidentiality is made up of fragments of information.
Suing a magazine company for including one's name on a list of names they sell to, a club that publishes their membership roster, or a church for showing a list of donors is unthinkable, however these and many other places are sources of personal information. There are businesses such as instant-phone-lookup.net/318/583/ which collect this information from a variety of databases, and then sell the information for a profit.
Most people assume that privacy is a fundamental and granted human right, as well as essential in an established and properly functioning society. If privacy is identified by extension to protection from profiling, the question becomes, "If these particular fundamental human rights were established, who would enforce them?" The answer is, the federal government.
The very organization who has already established laws such as the Patriot Act. This seems rather ironic, under the circumstances, as it would only increase surveillance by the government.
A Declaration of Human Rights has already been written by the United Nations. In general it states that everyone has a right to his own opinion and expression, to hold opinions, without interference, and to exchange information and ideas through any media. Funny how the ability to "exchange ideas and information through any and all medias" throws wide the gates for database harvesting of our personal information.
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