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If a person is not doing anything objectionable, would you expect them to want privacy?
I'm not talking about privacy in the bathroom or the bedroom here, but privacy in terms of one's personal space and communications.
Eg. If a teenager is being well-behaved, would they object to their parents reading their diary or looking in their school bag/purse?
If a person is not carrying contraband, do you think they would be likely to mind police searching their car?
If someone is not cheating or hiding other undesirable behaviours, would it be a problem to share their e-mail password with a significant other or spouse?
If a person is not plotting anything illegal, do you think that it would bother them if a government intelligence agency might occasionally monitor snippets of their phone conversations or e-mail?
5 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I certainly do.
I take someone's right to privacy as a given because it is so important to other rights of freedom of action and freedom of expression and also a matter of trust, as MO said.
I think we can think of our privacy is our mental property.
The inverse to this question is why would an individual or organisation want information about someone who is not doing anything objectionable? Whose interest is it in to violate someone's privacy and why should they have a right to?
- Morbid OneLv 61 decade ago
This is an interesting topic...
Sometimes, even if the person in question is not up to anything or "has anything to hide," they could object to all of these things for lack of trust with the person/people they are concerned about hiding *from*. Example: if the Police aren't allowed to search your car at random, you would have less concern that they could "plant" something to find. Even if a child who isn't up to anything illicit or illegal, may not want their parents looking in their diary or journal for embarrassment over crushes, or things they like that could in some way be used against them, or fear their parents might meddle in their "affairs." Yet another aspect could be people being insulted at not being trusted....
It's a fine line, this trust thing...
- 1 decade ago
I am neither a teen nor am I doing any of the stuff you mention, but I object to it all, except the email password thing, I share it with my wife.
Diary: What if your deepest feeling are written down, only for you to see, and your parents read it, and it's really embarrassing?
Car searching: You have the right to say no, so why not? Sure they will hold you there till a K-9 gets there and sniffs it.
Snooping: My business is none of the government's business.
- 1 decade ago
Mentally healthy persons have boundaries.
Persons who respect constitutional limitations on government power are uncomfortable with police searches without probable cause.
Privacy is important and basic to persons in our culture.
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