“One’s privacy, like other aspects of one’s honor, was not a market commodity that could simply be definitively sold.”
I say privacy was wounded in World War I with the creation of the income tax and dealt a death blow with the war powers acts created at the start of World War II.
If you don't let much information about your self out then privacy is kept up to a certain level. If you start blabbing then the whole world is in your bedroom...
Got a phone? Got internet access? Cable or satellite TV? A credit card? A bank account? A social security number?
Unlisted...only at work...in the wife's name...unfortunately yes...yes...yes. Minimize and consolidate. Helps you sleep at night.
Anyone with enought money or power or both can find out anything they want to know about you anytime they feel like it. That's the way it's been for decades. Do what you want to and don't worry about it. Damned few of us are important enough that anyone will care. I just find it amusing that so many people seriously believe that they privacy is anything but an outmoded concept or that there is some magical way to protect it.
I sleep fine at night, BTW. Well unless I have heartburn or gas...
Got a phone?
Got internet access?
Cable or satellite TV?
A credit card? A bank account?
A social security number?
Your point is asking?
Mine is in low-case ... speaking about the broad powers given the government in a crisis situation... ergo, war powers acts. I didn't mean the literal 'War Powers Act'... which is indeed Vietnam era. A case in point... the mass interning of Japanese blood Americans for the duration.I thought the War Powers Act was Vietnam-era...
But why would they? That was my point as well...
Oh, and FYI? Locking your credit card in a safe does little for it's security.
My ATM card works as one for purchases that require one though.