[Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

[Tim May]

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 05:17  AM, Adam Shostack wrote:
>
> I wasn't arguing, I was quipping.
>
> I find the many meanings of the word privacy to be fascinating.  So
> when someone commented that the car's tattle-box is or isn't a privacy
> invasion, I thought I'd offer up a definition under which it is.
> Its a definition that lots of people use, as John points out.
>
> Perhaps better than 'right' would be 'ability,' 'The ability to lie
> and get away with it.'

I wasn't picking on you or your points, that's for sure. In fact, I 
barely noticed whose message I was replying to.

My point was a larger one, that nearly all such debates about privacy 
eventually come round to issues of "what have you got to hide?" and 
issues of truth and lies.

This is why I like the "Congresss shall make no law" and "shall not be 
infringed" absoluteness of the original Constitution. The language does 
not natter about "truthful speaking shall not be infringed."

And this is why more recent legislation allowing government to regulate 
"commercial speech" or to decide which speech is true and which is 
false (as in advertising claims) is so corrosive to liberty.

--Tim May
"The great object is that every man be armed and everyone who is able 
may have a gun." --Patrick Henry
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they 
be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton