jay-h (7/9/2013)
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)
Thanks jay.
To take what you have said one step further if I could, it does not even have to be a controversial subject. You could take a stand on some method of building a SQL View of a complex collection of data from various joined tables and the indexing of that view that is proven to work great in the reading of the view but takes a long time to build in a bach process every evening. And since you are all for rapid access and see the justification for the large batch window to build that structure you are labeled as one who wastes computer time and resources. Then when you defend yourself you are called argumentative and a rebel.
It can get worse while all the time you are trying to make it better.
Not all gray hairs are Dinosaurs!