January 8, 2010

Communism is not dead!

Posted in The Rambling Neuron, Things That Bother Me tagged authority abuse, communism is not dead, personal data abuse at 12:31 am by ancienttrails

It’s been a while…and apparently it had to be something that pissed me off quite badly in order to write about it. So, as I was gloriously walking home one evening, I find a notice in the building informing everyone that certain data must be provided to the administration for the update of something called “building’s book”, namely the name and contact details of one’s employer, as requested by the local police.
The speed with which blood circulated through my veins in that moment must have exceeded some cosmic limits, and I was about to rip off the damn thing when I said to myself that I should not jump to conclusions so fast…and just check from what level this abuse comes from: high-up or down-below?
As it might be expected, it’s just the down-below involved…of course there’s no such data required by the piece of law dealing with the said registry, and even if there would have been, this would have been utterly illegal and against any proportionality principle between purpose of the request and data requested.
But I cannot refrain from wondering what’s next? The size you’re wearing? Your favourite colour? If you snore? How many times you have sex daily? What you dream? What you fear?
And in the end, I actually don’t get it…if they want, they know it anyway, so why do they bother asking? So that you know they know? You should know it anyway. What I find interesting is that such abusive request is made with such guts and in reliance on ignorance, fear or rooted obedience or a combination thereof.
I’m also curious about my neighbours’ reaction to such request when letting them know it’s abusive…somehow I have the feeling it will be quite disappointing.
I’ll keep you posted!

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