Comments on: Privacy in the age of technology http://www.opti-mystic.net/blog/2004/12/22/privacy-in-the-age-of-technology/ Right of centre and left of right. Right about everything! Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:50:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Opti Mystic http://www.opti-mystic.net/blog/2004/12/22/privacy-in-the-age-of-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-389 The Opti Mystic Mon, 27 Dec 2004 05:27:44 +0000 http://www.opti-mystic.net/blog/archives/2004/12/22/privacy-in-the-age-of-technology/#comment-389 Strongbow >> There is definitely merit in banning the use of mobile phones themselves inside the classes in schools/colleges... just because there is no place for phones while a class is going on. But banning them on the campus is overdoing it a bit. As you said, it's a silly idea! Actually, the MMS clip was shot secretly without the knowledge of the girl. Or at least I guess so. Even in case she did consent, it still is a crime because the two individuals involved in the act were not adults. About the Shahid Kareena episode, I have no sympathy for the what Kareena says... if it was indeed the two of them in that clip! Charu >> That's the way technology progresses. We were doing quite alright without even phones (landlines) and yet now they are indispensible! That can't be helped! About people calling up at odd hours... I guess the cellphones give us the freedom of either turning off the phones at such hours or ignoring calls completely! :) Strongbow >> There is definitely merit in banning the use of mobile phones themselves inside the classes in schools/colleges… just because there is no place for phones while a class is going on. But banning them on the campus is overdoing it a bit. As you said, it’s a silly idea!

Actually, the MMS clip was shot secretly without the knowledge of the girl. Or at least I guess so. Even in case she did consent, it still is a crime because the two individuals involved in the act were not adults. About the Shahid Kareena episode, I have no sympathy for the what Kareena says… if it was indeed the two of them in that clip!

Charu >> That’s the way technology progresses. We were doing quite alright without even phones (landlines) and yet now they are indispensible! That can’t be helped! About people calling up at odd hours… I guess the cellphones give us the freedom of either turning off the phones at such hours or ignoring calls completely! :)

]]> By: Charu http://www.opti-mystic.net/blog/2004/12/22/privacy-in-the-age-of-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-388 Charu Mon, 27 Dec 2004 04:38:15 +0000 http://www.opti-mystic.net/blog/archives/2004/12/22/privacy-in-the-age-of-technology/#comment-388 Forget vidoe phones, I find mobile phones so all -pervading that I wonder how people ever managed without them! What I find irritating and intrusive is that people find it perfectly normal to call you on your mobile at all times, irrespective of day / night... but no, banning mobile phones is not the solution, where all can you ban them from? Forget vidoe phones, I find mobile phones so all -pervading that I wonder how people ever managed without them! What I find irritating and intrusive is that people find it perfectly normal to call you on your mobile at all times, irrespective of day / night… but no, banning mobile phones is not the solution, where all can you ban them from?

]]> By: Strongbow http://www.opti-mystic.net/blog/2004/12/22/privacy-in-the-age-of-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-384 Strongbow Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:48:10 +0000 http://www.opti-mystic.net/blog/archives/2004/12/22/privacy-in-the-age-of-technology/#comment-384 The idea of banning camera phones just because of this scandal is really silly. I don't know the exact details, but I guess it would be pretty logical to assume that the DPS kid who created the MMS clip did so in his home. If that indeed is the case then banning these phones in schools etc. will not accomplish much. However these phones could be abused(e.g. in an examination hall etc.). I assume that these are already banned at the time of major public exams like SSC, HSC etc. Going back to the issue of the MMS clip, the main reason why this got out of hand was probably because the girl did not know what her legal rights were. Even if she consented to it was she fully aware of the implications of being in a film clip picturing her in distasteful positions? We can only conjecture at this point since the girl has already left the country and her parents are not going to pursue a case agains the boy(At least that's what I read on the websites). I don't know much about the Shahid-Kareena case, but we have seen here in the west that many celebrities would do anything to get coverage in the media. The idea of banning camera phones just because of this scandal is really silly. I don’t know the exact details, but I guess it would be pretty logical to assume that the DPS kid who created the MMS clip did so in his home. If that indeed is the case then banning these phones in schools etc. will not accomplish much. However these phones could be abused(e.g. in an examination hall etc.). I assume that these are already banned at the time of major public exams like SSC, HSC etc.

Going back to the issue of the MMS clip, the main reason why this got out of hand was probably because the girl did not know what her legal rights were. Even if she consented to it was she fully aware of the implications of being in a film clip picturing her in distasteful positions? We can only conjecture at this point since the girl has already left the country and her parents are not going to pursue a case agains the boy(At least that’s what I read on the websites).

I don’t know much about the Shahid-Kareena case, but we have seen here in the west that many celebrities would do anything to get coverage in the media.

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