Our parents had certain rights and freedoms they took for granted, inherited from our grandparents. They are not passed on to our children. This is a huge failure of our generation.
Our parents were able to write a private letter. They took absolutely privacy for granted. We can say that the letter paper took some time to deliver, but nobody read it in transit, nor does the letter in itself be connected databases to be used against those who communicate at a later date. The factor would never be held responsible for the content of the letter by corporate interests who did not like what was communicated.
Our parents could put a private phone call without being wiretapped and eavesdropped on. Their phonecalls are not connected to be used against them at a later date. They took this right and freedom for absolutely granted.
Our parents could freely communicate privately without corporate and government interests stepping in mid-sentence and interrupting with "You mentioned a forbidden subject.. Please do not discuss forbidden topics "(This would be the case for some time if links to the Pirate Bay were posted on Facebook, for example.)
They were able to go to the library - on their own feet, it is true - and search for information. They have absolute privacy making, and took private life for granted. Nobody connects what information they were seeking to use it against them, no one was looking they receieved information in response to questions, nor how our browsed parents, learned, and used this information. The fact is, no agency recorded that our parents had been to the library in the first place.
When our parents a something mistake and correct themselves, or perhaps even changed their mid-sentence mind and decided not to say anything, no one took notice attention to that they thought the first but never expressed.
When our parents read a newspaper, there was no one looking over their shoulder to see exactly what newspaper they read, which articles they read in this document, in what order, and how of time. any body has not what friends log our parents contacted after reading a particular article. This was the privacy that was made absolutely and fundamentally for granted in our parents' generation.
Our parents could freely walk around the city without having logged almost every step by the government. Law enforcement has never been able to check exactly where a certain individual had been several years in the past, and that person was talking to the most recent. This was the privacy that our parents took for granted.
When our parents thought that to date, as they were looking at the pictures and phone numbers, there was no one who carries their partner preferences to use against them later. When our parents were visiting a travel agency, nobody took careful notes of trips that were never booked.
When our parents deposit money of their own money in a bank, they must first show ID. It was an obvious right - to deposit your money in the bank, in your own account, without question
When our parents wanted to travel around the country, they do not need to show any other document the. ticket. It was a right that was completely taken for granted, especially after WW2. Nobody kept careful log of each trip they made to be used against them later.
When our parents bought a pack of gum, a sandwich, or a pack of beer, which has never been recorded in giant databases that could be used against them later.
Our children have lost all those rights and freedoms. Each. All these rights, our parents took for granted, have the freedoms that we have failed to pass on to our children. I firmly believe that this is the worst conceivable failure of our generation, and I think the future will judge us harshly for that.
Privacy remains your own responsibility. It is the privacy of your children.
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