Privacy is a constant, personal issue for anyone who has learned to log online. Recently the Federal Trade Commission and the Commerce Department requested more privacy for web surfers, and today privacy was lost on a smaller scale with the outing of personal information arose in LA Political Cartoons at Examiner today, when a big-time restaurant critic for the LA Times had her photo posted online for the first time, for all the restaurant owners and foodies in Los Angeles to goggle at. Said the Times:
Anonymity is important because restaurant critics function as consumer advocates and want to ensure their meal closely mimics the meal and dining experience that anyone else would get if they were to show up at that restaurant. If the critic is known, the staff can go out of its way to give them special treatment.
It's not just critics who prefer to remain anonymous; this is a big issue to most Americans, and cartoonists feel their pain.
Facebook Cartoon
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, claimed the end of privacy in an interview with Techcrunch. Cam Cardow has an amusing cartoon about the privacy issues Facebook has been dealing with. (Not very well, of course. Facebook constantly changes their rules and limits, and unless people check their Privacy settings regularly, they will find that changes have been made there with no notice. Also, I think there should be more nude men in cartoons, although those who exercise get points. I like his sunburn lines, too.)
Google Privacy Cartoon
Google is the worst when it comes to privacy, exploiting names, photos and info for their own game, as John Darkow points out in his cartoon of Google with binoculars. Every once in a while, news reporters jump on Google, and government agencies give them a stern look but everyon backs down, because, of course, Google is Google. And we still need it.
TSA Cartoon
You can count on Mike Lester to have an interesting drawing and a fine, conservative point of view. Why should the TSA have so much control over our coming and going and even our bodies at airports? As Wayne Resnick pointed out so succinctly on KFI last week, it's not like TSA has ever stopped any possible hijackings; those actions have come from alert citizens on the plane, just being good citizens.
I like Ben Franklin's quote in the cartoon: Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. Right on, Ben.
WARNING: Some of the cartoons in the attached slideshow have people wearing less clothes than usual.
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Comments
I have used the Ben Franklin quote many times myself. It's so true, if people are willing to give up almost anything for safety they what do they really have?
I never heard it before, that I can remember, but I know my Libertarian friends would love it! I especially agree with it in this case - I consider what the TSA is doing to privacy a lot worse than profiling.
There, I said it.
What TSA is doing is very bad Donna, I wholeheartedly agree. I am glad that I don't fly because it might get ugly.
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