WESTMINSTER-When, exactly, was privacy in America perverted into an increasingly unattainable and meaningless concept? Did it vanish with the 20th century? Did it go away when the internet and digital tech culture infiltrated our sacred spaces?
I remember Robert Bork's Supreme Court confirmation hearing, when he said that there was no Constitutional right to privacy. He was not confirmed largely because of that statement.
How prophetic and true that statement was, and it is even more true today in 2024 than it was in 1987.
I think it is obvious, at least to people of a certain age, that privacy is dead in the United States. Today I received yet another letter from a company I did not recognize telling me that my "information" had been compromised by a "data breach."...