U.S. Congress passes "Real ID Act" (page 2)

EvilForce

You have nothing to hide....

How many liberties and freedoms have been sacrificed to stupid sentiments like this? Maybe if you have nothing to hide you would welcome a government censor into your home to watch everything you did, what you watched, what you read.

"But if it makes us safer I'm all for it." This is another sentiment that boils my blood. Well if everyone quit driving we would save 42,000 lives every years from automobile accidents. But no one gives that up. There is inherent risk in living. The government has botched privacy rights and personal freedoms, time & time again. So they are to be trusted with this power and information.

I don't think so!

coffee_black

This has been happening slowly over time, and we're not supposed to notice it. When I was in High School, we read books like 1984 by Orwell. It was required reading. No more... Why?

Just because you value freedom and privacy doesn't mean you are trying to hide something. For example, there is nothing wrong with the human body... but that doesn't mean I want mine displayed in public... I don't want someone creating a profile of me based on my purchases...or bank accounts or whatever other info is out there..

I am surprised to see that some have no clue as to the long term consequences of this loss of privacy. A chip in my behind? Nope they'll have to catch me first, and this grandmother can run pretty fast!

Coffee

Frannie Banannie

The only ones who are super concerned about this invasion of privacy are the ones who are breaking the law! Why do I give a s*it if the goverment knows where I shop or eat or work? Why do I care if banks and retailers know? If I'm not breaking the law WHY DO I CARE IF EVERYONE KNOWS!!!!!! Want to put an GPS chip up my A$$ I don't care just use plenty of lube I have nothing to hide!
Do you???? If no then why are you so worried?

Mkr, I'm not worried about that, cause I'm not breaking the law....BUT....lemme know how it feels when any "Tom, Dick 'n Harry" can get your credit info off the net and your credit goes in the toilet and you're indicted for a crime you didn't commit, eh?

FB

Frannie Banannie

I have nothing to hide... but that doesn't mean that I want my personal info out there for all to see. My address and other personal info is just that.... personal. I choose who I give it to. I value my privacy. The argument that you must be doing something illegal if you don't want your info out there is 100% rediculous..and bogus to boot. There are people out there stealing identities all the time, with horrible consequences for the victim. My life is an open book only to those I choose to open it to.

Exactly, CB!! It opens the door WIDE for wannabe stalkers, too!

the names George and ----- Orwell spring to mind

Yeppers, stilla!!

FB

Frannie Banannie

It's attitudes like that that are causing us(US citizens) to lose more and more freedoms and liberties.
So you don't care if the govenment knows where you shop or eat. What if where you shop or eat is on a list of companies that supposedly supports anti-US movements? What if the government decides that since you shop or eat there that you are sympathetic to that cause? What if they arrested you and held you prisoner on whatever terrorist charges they felt like? The truth that you had no idea about the alleged sinister activities of the company you dealt with is of no consequence. You supported that cause by purchasing goods thus in the eyes of the ever growing, ever more controlling government, you're guilty of sedition.
I bet you'd think about those freedoms and liberties a little bit more then.
An extreme example? Maybe, but as long as people allow the government to intrude more and more into their lives, the more people are willing to give up liberties to feel safe, the more people don't care about what liberties they have now then the more fascist the government will become. All because we don't care.

Undercover's got it goin' ON!! Who knows what they'd do next?!! Tell us what books we could and couldn't read, what we can buy and sell and where we can buy it and sell it.....oooops....they're already doin' that, eh?

FB

Frannie Banannie

You have nothing to hide....

How many liberties and freedoms have been sacrificed to stupid sentiments like this? Maybe if you have nothing to hide you would welcome a government censor into your home to watch everything you did, what you watched, what you read.

"But if it makes us safer I'm all for it." This is another sentiment that boils my blood. Well if everyone quit driving we would save 42,000 lives every years from automobile accidents. But no one gives that up. There is inherent risk in living. The government has botched privacy rights and personal freedoms, time & time again. So they are to be trusted with this power and information.

I don't think so!

HYUH, EF!! Just think about what J Edgar did with all that personal info he gathered and filed away! Do the supporters or passive ppl concerning this new enactment think that everyone in authority is a little white rabbit with unlimited integrity?

FB

Frannie Banannie

I am surprised to see that some have no clue as to the long term consequences of this loss of privacy. A chip in my behind? Nope they'll have to catch me first, and this grandmother can run pretty fast!

I'm right behind ya, CB!

Frannie B

Elsewhere

The only ones who are super concerned about this invasion of privacy are the ones who are breaking the law! Why do I give a s*it if the goverment knows where I shop or eat or work? Why do I care if banks and retailers know? If I'm not breaking the law WHY DO I CARE IF EVERYONE KNOWS!!!!!! Want to put an GPS chip up my A$$ I don't care just use plenty of lube I have nothing to hide!
Do you???? If no then why are you so worried?

You've got it backwards... I am entitled to privacy BECAUSE I am not doing anything wrong. Only convicted criminals should bear the burden of loosing freedoms and privacy. Privacy is not a reward, it is a right.

WHY DO I CARE IF EVERYONE KNOWS!!!!!!

Just make sure you don't throw any stones while living in your glass house.

Frannie Banannie

You've got it backwards... I am entitled to privacy BECAUSE I am not doing anything wrong. Only convicted criminals should bear the burden of loosing freedoms and privacy. Privacy is not a reward, it is a right. Just make sure you don't throw any stones while living in your glass house.

Way ta GO, Else!!!

Frannie

mkr32208

Oh please, I work for the police dept. The goverment knows every thing about me there is to know they have for years! I have had identity theft commited against me and because all my info is out there it was EASY to find the person responsible and toss his a$$ in jail! You alarmist are just that "the sky is falling the sky is falling" please get over yourselves it's idiotic!

Privacy is an illusion, you want real privacy get of the internet, cut your phone service, cancel all your bank accounts, quit your job and go live in a cave then you will be private... I'm afraid however that's the only way!

U.S. Congress passes "Real ID Act"

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