Stephanie Dowrick says privacy is important. Too right!
Dowrick (as in most of her writing) focuses on the personal. She suggests it's unwise to 'tell everything' on Facebook. Fair enough.
However Dowrick does think privacy concerns are wider than social media.
And what's the problem? Surprise surprise, Murdoch's News of the World. Apparently the biggest privacy issue we face is the fact that actor Sienna Miller was chased down the street by paparazzi.
Why are Australian progressives - who've never given a stuff about privacy - suddenly shocked at the treatment of British celebrities? By a paper that's been closed down?
What about some anger at Centrelink harassing and videoing welfare recipients? Or the Federal Government's surveillance of environmental activists? (Bob Brown did condemn this as 'wasting public money' - not a privacy issue for the Greens though, apparently.)
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