SONY Emails

[East]

I am guessing everyone knows about the SONY Email leaks where everyone's private emails at SONY were released for public viewing and critique....

...and I have noticed people defending this action and demanding apologies but I think that it is crazy to apologize for ANYTHING that was said in private. The invasion of privacy has gone waaaaayyyyy too far already thanks to 9/11 and the patriot act...and facebook...and google. and I am thinking now with this horrific invasion of privacy that we are now supposed to just "get used to it" instead of fighting for any right to privacy....

I don't even care what was said in the private emails and I turned the channel when they began revealing crap that is NONE OF MY BUSINESS.

So here is my question.....

For all the people who insisted that the new invasion of privacy that has unfolded in the past 15 years was all "OK" because...well...they aren't worried because they have nothing to hide (BARF)...

How do you feel about this? Would you be OK if your private emails were exposed? Would you apologize?

This is another dangerous step in the road to Big Brother enslaving all of us....not so much the violation of privacy...but our complacency about it and even worse...our sick need to find more celebrity gossip. I thought our decadence would be the key to the end at one time but I wasn't quite sure why...THIS might be what I was talking about...

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper....T.S. Eliot


Thoughts?

[matty7]

things we say in private via conversation or emails are often formed by the mood we are in also - if you have had an argument with someone then you may say harsh things about this person in the moment of madness but by the next day it may all be forgiven - with government's, journalists et all stealing or publishing your emails then it is set in stone and open to everyone to read....their is no take backs and you look like a horrible person ,

I actually believe that the excuse of terrorism has given government's the excuse they have been looking for to by pass civil liberties and steal every correspondence that every travel along the internet pipe lines.

I suppose as a nobody then my emails are no concern to anyone so Im past caring that im been snooped on as there is nothing I could possibly do to stop it
If I was a celebrity though I would be very careful these days and would never post sensitive subjects via email or even discuss them over mobile phone either seen as journalists can easily hack these too, there's no such things as privacy anymore

[MikeW]

Womb to tomb surveillance. Isn't even on the sly. People WANT *everyone* to know every thing they're doing so they broadcast it on FB, G+ and Twitter (not to mention Instagram and all the rest of it). e.g GWIP < NSFW "135,122 guys and counting"

SMH

[Borg69]

I think the government/NSA ( and Google, Amazon, and the rest) are completely heinous for what they're doing.

"Big Brother" ... if you're watching ... take a good look at THIS!

[ShiftyNJ]

I was on the PATH train (between NYC and NJ) this past weekend and an entire car was done up in ads for the latest version of Candy Crush. This is (I assume, as IDK how they'd charge for it) a free game... how are they funding an ad blitz like this? I bet if you dig into the T&C you agree to when you add it to your Facebook, that they are harvesting other data from you and selling it for a tidy sum.

Getting back to Sony, I was most interested in the ones with Channing Tatum proving once again what a nut he is. In a good way; I think he would be funny to hang out with.

[JackTX]

If you said something bad about someone and were overheard, you probably wouldn't say, "Well you weren't SUPPOSED to hear that so I'm not apologizing!" Unless you hated them maybe The method of exposure seems somewhat immaterial.

I think the data-security war is going to heat up even more now, and it's barely even begun.

[Rareboy]

I can say that while I know of the sony emails...I have reached the point where I honestly don't want to know every single thought that people express in private if it has no impact on my rights, freedoms or is a matter of fiduciary trust. So I have not even bothered to find out what all these lurid emails contain.

Juicy, I'm assuming?

[meridannight]

invasion of privacy has never been okay in my book. not under any excuse.

otherwise, i don't really have anything in my private emails that would prompt for concern. my emails are mostly just informative. who, what, when, where. things like that. the most private matters are discussed in person. and information i know is sensitive --- that will never go into emails or anywhere it can be recorded. i wouldn't be okay with anybody sticking their nose into my private matters, but if my emails were exposed i wouldn't be concerned. there's nothing there to use.

i have also not gone along with the whole wave of 'publicizing' whatever you do at any given time for a bunch of anonymous strangers. i think that is exceptionally stupid. i'm not on facebook (why the fuck would i need that for?), don't post my private photos or videos up on the internet, don't have a blog (wtf), or anything like that. i think this trend toward less personal privacy and blurring between private and public affairs in private life is strange to say the least. it seems the new generations growing up now have different ideas on what should be private and what not, and they seem to easily include total strangers into their sphere of 'friends'. that is completely alien to me. i don't get it.

and i don't know anything about Sony email leak. too lazy to look it up at the moment. maybe later.

[MisterLove]

Kim Jong Un can check my emails anytime he wants.

My life is an open book, I don't bad-mouth anyone and I don't even watch porn anymore.