http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/04/justice_scalias_2.html

Europeans have had to learn one or two the hard way too. Good for the students.

In Germany, finger prints of a high official were printed in a magazine, in a form that makes them painfully easy to reproduce. This was in response to the government considering biometrics.

His choice was to cut off the comprimised bio-marker, or live with the fact that it simply was no longer secure.

In this case, we've got Scalia harping on there being no need for privacy protection. Of course, that's for ordinary people. HE is a Supreme Court Justice, and that's different.

...or so he thinks!

They turned in a 17 page brief that profiled him to a degree that clearly offended him.

This after him being on the public record for this bit:

Scalia said he was largely untroubled by such Internet tracking. "I don't find that particularly offensive," he said. "I don't find it a secret what I buy, unless it's shameful."

Classic, "you only have to worry, if you are guilty." crap. Hell, I don't even know if it's conservative crap. It's just ignorant.

After seeing this work, he then uttered this:

I stand by my remark at the Institute of American and Talmudic Law conference that it is silly to think that every single datum about my life is private. I was referring, of course, to whether every single datum about my life deserves privacy protection in law.

It is not a rare phenomenon that what is legal may also be quite irresponsible. That appears in the First Amendment context all the time. What can be said often should not be said. Prof. Reidenberg's exercise is an example of perfectly legal, abominably poor judgment. Since he was not teaching a course in judgment, I presume he felt no responsibility to display any.

Heh...

Good on them.

Yeah, there is a lot of stuff that's nobody's business but my (your) own.

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker, you can get all the liquor down in Costa Ricar...Ain't nobody's business but my own..

Wow. Flash back to Taj Mahal!!!

But seriously. There is stuff that's nobody's business. That's why I filled out my Safeway card with the name "Joe Shopper" on Main Street in Anytown, USA. None of their business what I buy.

It's nobody's business what car I buy, how many guns I have, what alcohol I drink (as long as I don't drive), how much money I make (other than the IRS and whomever else I decide to disclose it to), what Church I attend, etc.

The list could go on and on and on.

Actually, Safeway is great about their program.

If you want to just provide them with anonymous data, they will gladly tell you how to fill out a Joe Shopper card.

Their data works in the aggregate. Works better when keyed to specific people, but they will take what they can get.

Our card actually has our name on it. I really don't care about my grocery info.

I'm so tempted to register one with a name like cleavil, or butkiss, asswhipe, or some other thing.

When they glance at the receipt to thank you personally, corporate style, watching them stumble over that would be as entertaining as manipulating the drive thru window person often is.

It's funny sometimes. Call it a happy rebellion.

It's nobody's business what car I buy, how many guns I have, what alcohol I drink (as long as I don't drive), how much money I make (other than the IRS and whomever else I decide to disclose it to), what Church I attend, etc.

The same goes for a woman who is in her first trimester of her pregnancy. It's nobody's business if she chooses to abort. Right?

>>first trimester
we were all once there...Right?

The same goes for a woman who is in her first trimester of her pregnancy. It's nobody's business if she chooses to abort. Right?

No. The things I listed don't involve killing an innocent human. Troll.

To LPete:

Touche'. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Thanks Merk.