There's no general right to privacy -- get over it, from Netly (fwd)

[Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>]

Hi,

Forwarded message:

> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 18:58:37 -0400
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
> Subject: There's no general right to privacy -- get over it, from Netly

> likes to say "Privacy is not an absolute right, but a
> fundamental right." But in truth, privacy is not a
> right but a preference: Some people want more of it
> than others.

A right is not a question of popularity or amplitude, it is a question of
existance. It is or it isn't. Some people want more guns than others
(obvious even to you) so you seriously hold that there is no fundamental
Constitutional right to own firearms? Or speech, we don't all want to use it
to the same amount, we therefore don't have a right to free speech? Or (oh
my god!) crypto, we don't all want to use it to the same degree therefore we
don't have a right to use crypto?

Serious boo-boo.

I hope it ain't gone to print yet...

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