Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users. In a report released Saturday, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with "comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy."
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Lawmaking in general always leads to oppression of those who dissent. That's the compromise you make by living inside of a state--sacrificing the rights of the few for the good of the majority.
By the way, what exactly is this common sense you speak of? Wherever I go in the world it seems to be different.
And you still haven't come up with a law that isn't based on some kind of moral judgement.
You seem to think there is something "wrong" with the idea of morality, perhaps because you link it exclusively to religion. As a matter of fact, I think a sense of morality, as in a sense of kindness, justice and fairness to others, is one of the finest achievements humankind can aspire to. Just because the term gets twisted by extremists now and then doesn't mean you should throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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If you really believe that morals have no place in laws then you might as well be an anarchist. Morals are what laws are based on, period. Please name me one single law that doesn't represent some moral value in one form or another.