Privacy Never Was Nor Will Be

We’re About to Find Out What Happens When Privacy Is All but Gone

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/opinion/apple-internet-privacy-tracking.html

Well, yes, it begins with a birth certificate which no infant consents to but licensed doctors must file. Parents may provide a name for the new born but "unnamed" otherwise in the blank space, usually along with the monikers of mom and pop.

Pre-school, nursery, kindergarten, yadda, yadda, to college and or military, marriage, arrest, driver's license, divorce, more marriage, prize winning, gossip column, scandal, DUI, road rage, you name it, you got ID'd, mug shot, wedding pix, bar fight, pet abuse, contributor to gangs of pols and blathering churches and bloodsucking unis and drunken Greeks and Geeks of Animal Houses.

So the planetary sucking and siphoning internet was invented to link up the masses of once solitary CPUs, following the slime trails of telecommunications, movies, radio, TV, junk mail, robo calls, Fuller Brush, evangelicals, sports, casinos, Elvis and Dolly and Hank and Willie and debt collectors and the draft.

Privacy has never been beyond reach of neighbors, relatives, bosses, friends, enemies, sales people, organizers, missionaries, protesters, burglars, bankers, grocers and drug peddlers. All these invaders are still at it offline as well as online, why even right here on Comments where pseudonyms and fictitious locations are transparent to identity of subscribers.

@me if you want to give a cookie to NYT.