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[UPDATE] Sentinel - July 29 - Privacy
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cassandra
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 		[UPDATE] Sentinel - July 29 - Privacy
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View from Earth: Privacy or Paranoia?
By COOKSTER

The recent bombings in London will be sure to add further fuel to the privacy vs. security debate that currently dominates the over-dinner conversation of middle-England; no more so than in our government's current predilection for identity cards. The concept of carrying such a card is both foreign and frightening to many of this country's citizens, and some have denounced the idea before hearing either the case for or against.

With biometric data the latest theme being touted as a way of fraud-prevention, many feel that too much information being held on the cards infringes on our civil rights, and would allow many people to access personal details without the card holder knowing. Our government believes the scheme is the way forward in the fight against terrorism, although how it could have prevented atrocities such as the ones we witnessed in London is a point that its champions will have to fight hard to prove in order to win over its critics.

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The debate is sure to rage on far beyond the eventual date of implementation, should it come, but in the meantime I believe we can learn much from Perplexians and your unquestioned acceptance of Keys. While they are much more sophisticated and integral to life than any ID card introduced on Earth would be, I believe the concerns over privacy must ring true in some ears.

You, as Perplexians, must surely worry at times that the carrying of such an important yet personal piece of kit, required to access such everyday items as a city newspaper, would be allowing organisations everywhere to collate data about you; building up information for reasons as inconsequential as advertising, or perhaps even more sinister means?

I cannot believe that the paranoia that infuses itself in the minds of Earth citizens at the mention of identity cards did not present itself in some form when Keys were introduced into your society. The adoption of such a technology here would be unheard of at the moment, especially when such tools as the relatively inferior internet are still eschewed by some for the fear that prying eyes may come wandering into their homes.

Of course, we on Earth still know little of how and when Keys became part of your lives and it seems that even the more reclusive cultures in your civilisation have accepted their usage, be it not in the conventional way that most of you use them. It is this blind acceptance of Keys that makes me wonder: Are we the ones who need to cast aside our cynicism and learn to trust and adopt new technologies as do the Perplexians, or are you the ones who need to see through the naivety of your culture and realise the dangers that holding keys present to you both as individuals and as a society?


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Scott
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 		wow. I cant think of a single article to write, and others keep em comin'. (then again I've got several banner ad concepts i'm working on. Graphics geek, me)

Well done, in fFact, to all View fFrom Earth Authors. most recently cookster, but also to every author who has written such brilliant prose, and to those whose ideas are brewing just below the surface.
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 		Ooh, my article got published. But I forgot to send a picture...

And, er, hi everyone by the way

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