so, interesting conversation with new gf chef this morning and I now wonder what the CUK congregations thoughts on the subject are..
Conversation started after reading the news that a news site in the US has shut itself down saying it can no longer operate due to US surveillance policies, I commented that my emails and website is hosted in the US and although I have zero to hide, I am a big advocate of the right to privacy and seeings as I have little to do today I might start looking at moving my domain hosting to a Swedish host away from US based Hostgator.
This led to a discussion about the right to privacy and paranoia.
My argument being that:
Her point of view being:
While I can agree her point of view to a point, I see the long term point of view that we are heading towards a closer approximation to a Big Brother Society and would prefer that to be minimalised wherever possible, not paranoia as such, more a case of taking precautions and resisting that particular change.
So, do you think my point of view is overly paranoid? or do you also dislike the idea of all communications being tracked for the reason "to prevent terror"?
In a related point, does anyone know of a alternative exchange hosting company that is stable/reliable in uptime and non US (also preferably non UK and ideally Swedish) based?, although those requirements are probably too specific and better suited to the Technology forum.
Conversation started after reading the news that a news site in the US has shut itself down saying it can no longer operate due to US surveillance policies, I commented that my emails and website is hosted in the US and although I have zero to hide, I am a big advocate of the right to privacy and seeings as I have little to do today I might start looking at moving my domain hosting to a Swedish host away from US based Hostgator.
This led to a discussion about the right to privacy and paranoia.
My argument being that:
yes, you're right I/we have nothing to hide but having someone profile me/us and therefore ask questions based on what they know goes against the right to privacy in my opinion and so when entering Israel or the US as examples, I would prefer to know I still have my right to privacy than having a government decide that for me under the disguise of "to combat terror".
I know I have zero to hide and so if governments say they will check all emails, texts and phone calls to prevent terror and that saves 1 life then surely that's better than not being able to do so if they didnt check on people
So, do you think my point of view is overly paranoid? or do you also dislike the idea of all communications being tracked for the reason "to prevent terror"?
In a related point, does anyone know of a alternative exchange hosting company that is stable/reliable in uptime and non US (also preferably non UK and ideally Swedish) based?, although those requirements are probably too specific and better suited to the Technology forum.
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