Originally Posted by mizzou65201
I don't profess to be an expert in the matter. It is, though, a foreboding sign when the best hope American citizens have in regards to their privacy rights is EU law.
Sad but too often true. A backdoor channel to get a lot of info about yourself (for amusement purposes) is to transfer your mailing address for a given account to the EU and then use EU laws and regulations to extract information that a certain entity would never care to give you.
Originally Posted by mizzou65201
I don't disagree in principle, except that the "limited purpose" of marketing so frequently becomes so broad. My argument is that the limited purpose of checking to see whether government intelligence (is that an oxymoron?) indicates a terrorist threat is a far more compelling interest than an individual interest in a corporate marketing scheme--and, as such, it seems silly to support one but decry the other.
I'm not saying I'm not concerned about misuse of data, or of people being wrongly flagged--those should always be concerns. I don't think that threat is presently greater than the necessity of stopping known terrorist threats.
Understandable and reasonable, even if I disagree with portions. Government "intelligence" is increasingly questionable (as it has become increasingly politicized or become a political football) and I would rather have the government allocate resources for truly dangerous items than on trying to gamble on "identity-as-security" approaches.