Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Privacy invasions too bold

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Your editorial on Oct. 30 concerning the erosion of our "right to privacy" was right on the money. These series of intrusions come from corporations, law enforcement, all branches of government and the post-9/11 climate of security paranoia. Obviously, our large institutions do not need any assistance to this invasion. Unfortunately, they are getting it.

Americans are so busy giving away and devaluing our privacy that we are hardly alarmed by the institutionalised takeaways. The Letterman affair became a voyeuristic orgy because someone read and then made public another's diary. A peephole pervert posts toilet portraits of a female reporter on the Net. Google Earth shows everyone where you live. Inside the house, on some networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, we give away every thought from the trivial to the intimate. And not only thoughts. Through sexting and thievery, views of our physical bodies are shared with all involuntarily.

Our "privates" have become all but confessionals parading as biographies and sell well. Computer pop culture has become one big show and tell. Shame, modesty and "none of your business" have become anachronisms—like the writer of this letter.

If we don't respect our own privacy, we will increasingly violate each other's.

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