Comments on: Googling and Personal Privacy http://deannahoak.com/2005/06/05/googling-and-personal-privacy/ SF/F Copyeditor Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:17:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: anonymous http://deannahoak.com/2005/06/05/googling-and-personal-privacy/#comment-142 anonymous Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:44:06 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/?p=74#comment-142 I don't think we've lost privacy as much as we've come to terms with all that has been going on around us and our mailboxes for the past ten years. Remember all those dinner time phone calls you (or your parents) got? Ever wonder why? Thank you for the suggestion for the book: The Healer I'll have to hold off reading it until I've read all the books that I picked up at WisCon. I've promised myself that I'll read them all before venturing out into the cruel world to buy more. Regards, D Haseman I don’t think we’ve lost privacy as much as we’ve come to terms with all that has been going on around us and our mailboxes for the past ten years. Remember all those dinner time phone calls you (or your parents) got? Ever wonder why?
Thank you for the suggestion for the book: The Healer
I’ll have to hold off reading it until I’ve read all the books that I picked up at WisCon. I’ve promised myself that I’ll read them all before venturing out into the cruel world to buy more.
Regards,
D Haseman

]]> By: fionagh http://deannahoak.com/2005/06/05/googling-and-personal-privacy/#comment-141 fionagh Sun, 05 Jun 2005 13:22:04 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/?p=74#comment-141 It worries me enough that I'm moving to Canada and becoming a Canadian citizen over it (plus many other issues that I have to deal with as a liberal, female, godless heathen). Because I am on so many "kick these jerks out of office" organization lists like MoveOn, Air America Radio, Smirking Chimp etc. and because I do a lot of weird research, I'm pretty sure that's why I'm always getting stopped and searched at airports. Once someone didn't know what my i-pod was (I kid you not the St. Paul airport security officer opened my bag and gasped in panic and threw on gloves in a fright) and they searched my entire bag while questioning the nature of an i-pod as an incendiary device. They then jotted my name and contact information (and I even think my license or SS#) down on "a list" that they wouldn't explain to me. I've always wondered if I'm now on some kinda "revolutionary citizen panic" list out there. I also wonder if it's easy to pick on the single, diminuitive females who come through security because it's easier than doing it to a six-foot angry man. But I digress ... It worries me enough that I’m moving to Canada and becoming a Canadian citizen over it (plus many other issues that I have to deal with as a liberal, female, godless heathen). Because I am on so many “kick these jerks out of office” organization lists like MoveOn, Air America Radio, Smirking Chimp etc. and because I do a lot of weird research, I’m pretty sure that’s why I’m always getting stopped and searched at airports. Once someone didn’t know what my i-pod was (I kid you not the St. Paul airport security officer opened my bag and gasped in panic and threw on gloves in a fright) and they searched my entire bag while questioning the nature of an i-pod as an incendiary device.

They then jotted my name and contact information (and I even think my license or SS#) down on “a list” that they wouldn’t explain to me. I’ve always wondered if I’m now on some kinda “revolutionary citizen panic” list out there. I also wonder if it’s easy to pick on the single, diminuitive females who come through security because it’s easier than doing it to a six-foot angry man. But I digress …

]]> By: cpolk http://deannahoak.com/2005/06/05/googling-and-personal-privacy/#comment-140 cpolk Sun, 05 Jun 2005 10:58:40 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/?p=74#comment-140 Mmph. I can't say the thought ever crossed my mind. I doubt the RCMP is going to care much about anything that's in my history pages. Mmph. I can’t say the thought ever crossed my mind. I doubt the RCMP is going to care much about anything that’s in my history pages.

]]> By: readwrite http://deannahoak.com/2005/06/05/googling-and-personal-privacy/#comment-139 readwrite Sun, 05 Jun 2005 09:58:06 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/?p=74#comment-139 I, too, copy edit, and I am ever researching such things as weapons specifications, grisly details of murders, and terrorist incidents. And over and over again: I've worked on several books about biological weapons, for example, and if another one comes out, I'm sure the people I've worked for will say, Oh, R. knows a lot about that stuff, let's give it to him. My attitude is that what I do is legitimate research for my job, and I can easily demonstrate that it is. If my name were Mohammed, I might feel differently--and there's the recent case of those two schoolgirls who were arrested as terrorist suspects. So i do worry about it sometimes, but if I don't do exactly what I want to do, they've already won. If they want to get me, I'm sure they can find a way anyway... I, too, copy edit, and I am ever researching such things as weapons specifications, grisly details of murders, and terrorist incidents. And over and over again: I’ve worked on several books about biological weapons, for example, and if another one comes out, I’m sure the people I’ve worked for will say, Oh, R. knows a lot about that stuff, let’s give it to him.

My attitude is that what I do is legitimate research for my job, and I can easily demonstrate that it is. If my name were Mohammed, I might feel differently–and there’s the recent case of those two schoolgirls who were arrested as terrorist suspects. So i do worry about it sometimes, but if I don’t do exactly what I want to do, they’ve already won.

If they want to get me, I’m sure they can find a way anyway…

]]> By: cathemery http://deannahoak.com/2005/06/05/googling-and-personal-privacy/#comment-138 cathemery Sun, 05 Jun 2005 07:27:00 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/?p=74#comment-138 Yeah, I know, flying has nothing to do with googling, but I already erased several other comments so mild they didn't even qualify as pungent. . . .I can see how the Nazis did it now. Yeah, I know, flying has nothing to do with googling, but I already erased several other comments so mild they didn’t even qualify as pungent. . . .I can see how the Nazis did it now.

]]> By: cathemery http://deannahoak.com/2005/06/05/googling-and-personal-privacy/#comment-137 cathemery Sun, 05 Jun 2005 07:24:41 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/?p=74#comment-137 Yes, it does worry me. I will be flying at the end of July and I'm already thinking about things like how my barrette set off the metal detector years ago at the courthouse when I was on grand jury, so I'd better use plastic hair clips because I don't want to be pulled out for a body search. And thinking of the days when that would have seemed totally ridiculous instead of possible. Yes, it does worry me. I will be flying at the end of July and I’m already thinking about things like how my barrette set off the metal detector years ago at the courthouse when I was on grand jury, so I’d better use plastic hair clips because I don’t want to be pulled out for a body search. And thinking of the days when that would have seemed totally ridiculous instead of possible.

]]> By: mrissa http://deannahoak.com/2005/06/05/googling-and-personal-privacy/#comment-136 mrissa Sun, 05 Jun 2005 05:48:06 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/?p=74#comment-136 I don't expect to be hauled in for questioning soon, because I'm white, female, suburban, Midwestern, Christian. There are easier targets than me. So I'm not worried on that level. I'm worried for others who don't have that level of assumed safety, though, and I don't think it's even remotely justified. My grandmother keeps saying, of airports that turn the metal detectors way, way up, "Well, if it makes us safer...." And I keep saying, "But it doesn't." I don't see that it does. I don't read of anyone caught that way. It looks to me like we're trading freedoms for nothing, in the name of trading them for security. I don’t expect to be hauled in for questioning soon, because I’m white, female, suburban, Midwestern, Christian. There are easier targets than me. So I’m not worried on that level. I’m worried for others who don’t have that level of assumed safety, though, and I don’t think it’s even remotely justified.

My grandmother keeps saying, of airports that turn the metal detectors way, way up, “Well, if it makes us safer….” And I keep saying, “But it doesn’t.” I don’t see that it does. I don’t read of anyone caught that way. It looks to me like we’re trading freedoms for nothing, in the name of trading them for security.

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