Tim Cook says data privacy is a basic human right
"Could we make money from knowing about this? Of course. Do you want us to do that that? No. Would it be in our value system to do that? No. We've designed [our system] to be private and for it to be secure."
Data or paper privacy follows directly from property rights. If you are the owner of the data and take reasonable steps to keep it private (not broadcast it) then the government is violating your property rights when it spies on you.
that my bank account and medical data should be
open for all to see. . sick. -- j
Are there rights you can declare as immutable? If so, tell me what they are and where they come from...again, they have to be immutable.
I much appreciate privacy, you cannot guarantee it. If you exist, your privacy is diminished from the time your parents know you exist. So to what extent should privacy be extended and by whose decree?
I do not advocate gratuitously communicating to the world a lot of things about myself, but that doesn't mean when the world becomes aware of it that I should somehow change my behavior. My life lived isn't based on the world's consideration of me, but on what God thinks how my life should be lived. He can handle the world...thank Him very much.
1) Personal Rights: If you were the only person on an island, civil/social rights would have no meaning because they require the interaction of two or more intelligent beings. The number of personal rights and the extent of each right would only be limited by the mental and physical abilities with which you have been endowed by the Creator or nature. As witnessed in the Garden oif Eden, humans have been endowed with the ability to think, to choose and to act. One can choose not to think (zombie sheep?). One can make choices and take actions that are beneficial, harmful or just plain stupid. With the action we take ( the cause), we are accountable and responsible for the result (the effect) whether good or bad. Alone on an island, it is obvious that you could not blame anyone else for a bad choice/ result or force him/her to help you out.
2) Civil/Social Rights: If there were two or more intelligent beings on the island, each individual would have the same types of rights but the extent of each right would be limited by the check and balance of equality. Because all humans have been created equal, even though an individual might have been endowed with superior strength or intelligence, no one has been endowed with superior rights. Man's history of slavery and patriarchy are a result of superior endowed might not superior endowed right. A superior right must exist for one to have the right to infringe on another's personal rights or to control a civil/social right. Because no superior personal rights have been endowed, all civil/social rights and their extent must be determined and agreed to by the mutual consent of all individuals in the group. If someone does not like something about a civil/social right, he/she can remove him/her self from that agreement or group. He/She will not have to conform to the group's control of that right but he/she will not be able to enjoy any group benefits related to the group's exercise of that right. A group has no right to force you to contribute (tax or dues) to a group project but you have no right to enjoy any benefits coming from that project.
Privacy requires two or more people to be meaningful and is therefore a civil/social right that is controlled by a group through mutual consent.