Re: Search for Tenants in Block of Flats

> From: Liz <pandora@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hugh Watkins wrote:
>
> > no thanks - UK is lagging behind bothe USA and Denamrk
> >
> > an honest citizen has nothing to hide
> >
> > much UK admion / civil service is primitive and out dated
>
> A silly and inept conflation of criminality and privacy.
>
> Your 'honest citizen' may have nothing he need hide from
> police/authorities but may still have aspects of his life that he
> cosiders to be his own affair and not up for public discussion.
>
> Whatever happened to the fine old English attitude of 'Mind your own
> damn business'?>

It rather depends, surely, on whether those "aspects of his life that
he considers to be his own affair and not up for public discussion"
impinge upon the rights and privacy of others, whether the person
concerned may recognise it or not?

I get sick and tired of seeing in my local paper - and others up and
down the land - building developers, incompetent businessmen,
shopkeepers and firms who've given bad service, people wanting to
build large extensions on their houses to the extent of possible
interference with the rights of their neighbours to enjoy their
homes, etc, telling the reporter "no comment" or "it's none of your
business". The plain fact is that in circumstances where other people
are affected by someone's actions, then it IS the business of the
press and others to demand an explanation. Unfortunately, most
actions by human beings usually impinge upon another human being!

Robert Maxwell was a great one for pleading his privacy and uttered
writs like confetti to anyone invading it. So are politicians and
civil servants, usually anxious to cover up their mistakes and
pecadilloes. The question, is where does the right to privacy end and
the public's right to know begin?

I believe you and I are united in opposition to ID cards, which may
or may not have been what Hugh was commenting on. However, doesn't it
occur to you that the right to privacy very often carries with it
public obligations?

Roy Stockdill
Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org
Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about,
and that is not being talked about."

Oscar Wilde

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