Miles Neale (7/9/2013)
Fo...It no longer is an issue of me not doing anything wrong and having nothing to hide. The issue is I want others to know only those things I want them to know to protect my privacy and life. I want some expectation of privacy to exist with no unauthorized collection of data about me and mine.
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You are so right about it not just being about doing something wrong. The internet has quite a memory and you don't know who is accessing it. Perhaps you may pontificate perfectly legally on controversial subjects that interest you, religion, politics, gun policy, abortion, whatever. And down the road, you're applying for an apartment, or a job and someone finds something they don't like. Or perhaps you're involved in a legal issue like a civil suit and a lawyer finds something to leverage your credibility. (Look how an inappropriate remark from 25 years ago has returned to haunt a celebrity)
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