Ha! This reminds me of a story told me by my Polish instructor at
Syracuse U. He was riding the bus to the campus and there were two
Polish women seated across the aisle from him. The were carrying on a
very personal discussion about their married lives and their husbands
fully confident that no one was around who could understand them.
When he got to his stop he looked at them and loudly and clearly said in
Polish "Do widzenia" (loosely translated means "So long" He said the
look on their faces was priceless. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/13/2010 6:59 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Privacy is an illusion. Yesterday I sat on a train and listened to
> two phone conversations - well heard them. i didn't have a lot of
> choice. The two women involved were happy to discuss quite personal
> family matters at length and detail in hearing of perhaps twenty
> complete strangers. and yet, I'm sure that in other circumstances,
> they would be protective of their privacy. People are strange.
> They'll read photo magazines that invade the privacy of others and
> yet assume that they they themselves can't be photographed in
> public. Privacy statements are there to maintain the illusion. It
> doesn't exist. As in that old advice that you should regard every
> microphone as open, you should assume that anyone can find out
> anything about you if they try hard enough. Such is life. Be
> prepared. Andrew Fildes afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 14/12/2010, at 10:41 AM, Jeff Keller wrote:
>
>> Have you looked at their privacy statements?
>
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