Speaking at a Yale University conference on Sunday, he argued that it is increasingly difficult to protect against government intrusions on privacy in a world where private companies have so much access to the intimate details of our lives, even if we never gave them permission.
Because of Supreme Court decisions reaching back to the 1970s .. http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_data_question_should_the_third-party_records_doctrine_be_revisited/ , the courts have long held that any information we hand over to third parties -- the same information that helps Target find out a teenage girl is pregnant before her father does [HUGE READ: How Companies Learn Your Secrets ] .. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html -- is not covered by the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. Congress can go above and beyond the Constitution's privacy protections to place limits on police, or on private companies, but so far it has been slow to act.
Kozinski thinks legislators won't take any serious steps soon, if only because "people are basically cheap."
"The reason you pay as little as you do for credit cards is that they sell this information to Experian," he explained. "Google is free because they get ad data just targeted to you based on your searches."
"We've gotten used to getting this stuff on the cheap by selling our privacy. It's a bargain we didn't start out making, it was made for us, but we've gotten comfortable with it," he said.
Kozinski is one of those who has reached some level of comfort, despite his lingering concerns. He mused that if he had to pick a price to protect his privacy -- and actually pay for all those proliferating "free" services -- he would probably reach a maximum "price point" of $200 a month, as long as it included his entire family.
That's not an option many companies actually offer. Social network App.net is trying to offer .. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/25/app_net_goes_freemium_paid_twitter_facebook_alternative_drops_paywall.html .. a paid alternative to Facebook and Twitter that turns consumers into masters of their own information. But many users balked at its initial price of $50 per year, and so far it hasn't taken off as a major social competitor. Kozinski argued that the private erosions of our privacy are contributing to a general sense that our data is not our own.
"So long as we are willing to sell our privacy," Kozinski said, "I think that it's going to be very hard to complain that the government gets the same stuff that we're willing to sell so cheaply to third parties."
Was good to read he sees limits to what should be legitimate police entrapment .. it's in the HEAPS more above .. hmm, maybe not, but i read it somewhere ..
.. Paterrico sp? rings a bell about something years ago on here .. i think ..
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