Privacy?  What Privacy

We can give up the idea that any of us has any real privacy anymore.  Or ever will again.  

And there’s nothing you, I, or even any government can do about it.

And no, that’s not paranoia speaking.  It’s just observation.

For one thing, as long as you are within view of any other people, you know at least some of them have their pocket cameras at the ready.  Those cameras are the main reason more photographs were taken in 2013 than in all other years combined. 

By the way, if you carry one of those little pocket computers, “they” can track you wherever you go. 

Walk the aisles of any store, or through its parking lot, and you know a camera is filming you.

Use your grocery store’s discount card and build an accessible record of your eating habits.  Use your credit card and risk having it swept up by hackers. 

And that doesn’t even mention what our governments do.

Not only does Uncle Sam snoop into who we’re talking to — and when, and for how long — but now he’s even lifting our photos from social web sites to be used by face-recognition gizmos. 

Then there are the drones that will fill the skies in just a few years, their cameras whirring constantly.  And not just government drones.  Already you can google  photos of your own backyard that were taken from space.

And already Google can drive past your house and, in a fraction of a second, learn all of your email contacts.

Privacy?  Gone.

But unless you’re breaking a law, do you really care?  

After all, the way to be truly free is simple: break no laws for which you are not willing to pay the consequences.  Then what can any government do?

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