Actually, I read an NYT article just yesterday saying the exact opposite...
Legolas Send a noteboard - 01/03/2010 06:19:34 PM
Goes along with that general mistrust of government.
That Europe valued privacy much more than the US, where freedom of speech was considered much more important - obviously then we are talking about privacy infringements not by the government, but by the media and the like. So it would seem to be more accurate to say "We're fairly touchy about the government having data on us in the US".
Fingerprint question
- 28/02/2010 06:28:46 PM
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- 28/02/2010 06:35:20 PM
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There are a few significant ways in which Norway reminds me of the US.
- 28/02/2010 08:01:01 PM
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in the US it is considered an invasion of privacy to have mandatory fingerprinting
- 28/02/2010 06:38:44 PM
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Re: in the US it is considered an invasion of privacy to have mandatory fingerprinting
- 28/02/2010 06:42:34 PM
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We're fairly touchy about privacy issues in the US.
- 28/02/2010 07:11:04 PM
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Actually, I read an NYT article just yesterday saying the exact opposite...
- 01/03/2010 06:19:34 PM
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Here in Sweden they take fingerprints if you have committed a crime.
- 28/02/2010 07:26:07 PM
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Fingerprints aren't the irrefutable evidence most people believe anyway.
- 28/02/2010 08:03:16 PM
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Not in the US or in Canada, no
- 03/03/2010 06:35:25 PM
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Don't forget all tourists... if one considers those separately from the criminals category, anyway. *NM*
- 03/03/2010 10:33:06 PM
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