09-27-2021, 10:10 AM
(09-26-2021, 10:41 PM)BostonCard Wrote: Your premise is that privacy is binary, and that everything is perfectly private or completely transparent. Alas, privacy is a spectrum, and although there are many things out there that are in the public domain, it is perfectly reasonable to wish that they weren't broadcast to the whole world. Much of my own sense of privacy comes not from things about me not being somewhere in the public domain, but rather that since it would take some combination of time, persistence, skill, etc. to find a lot of the information, and I am irrelevant enough that no one would bother, that I can feel pretty safe that the info is "private enough". Alas, if a stalker were to ever go after me, I think I would feel like my privacy was pretty violated despite all the information being in the public domain.
To paraphrase Dr. Malcolm from Jurrasic park:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3j9muCo4o0
You seem so preoccupied by whether you could figure out someone's vaccination status that you haven't stopped to think about whether you should.
BC
Actually, this whole debate reminds me of another classic JG scene from Jurassic Park:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnun8y7r8_U