No Privacy…

May 1st, 2008 By: PatHMV | Tags:
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THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, there’d be no more privacy. And they were right!

What’s that? Oh, you mean it’s NOT Post Like Glenn Reynolds Day anymore? Never mind…

In a monstrous fit of pique, the out-going left-wing government of Italy released on the web the salaries of every single Italian. The data was very popular for the 24 hours it was available, before being taken down because of a warning from the country’s “privacy watchdog.” Officials responsible for the actions, in a nice display of Newspeak, described the website as nothing more than an attempt to “improve transparency.”

The purpose of government transparency is to increase the accountability of the government to the people, not of the people to the government. Transparency in the one direction leads to democracy and the rule of law. Transparency in the other direction leads to fascism.

[Cross-posted at StubbornFacts.us]

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