To start this blog, I am going to state part of my theory of privacy. What is privacy really but us keeping our thoughts in our mind? It really takes great skill and courage to speak your true thoughts. That is probably why we like to have a lot of privacy. We are afraid of how the people who hear us are going to act. If you think about it though, everyone should have no privacy. That way every one would feel free to express their thoughts. But then if that happened, where would every one learn courage? Since many people are not very good public speakers, when they do speak it takes a lot of courage that thy have gathered in anticipation. It is just like nature, if you add too much of one thing, it screws up everything else. The government doesn't want the population to know a lot of things, why? Because that would mean letting them know what everyone says, including the crazy people who want to take over the world. Part (but not much) of the government's reason for privacy is to protect us. They want to protect us from those crazy people. It also seems to me that we have privacy for our self-comfort. We like to keep things secret so that it won't get around. If someone new how to build a very large and very powerful new weapon of mass destruction, he wouldn't tell anyone how. 1) Because he wants to keep himself and the world safe. but mostly 2) because he wants to be and stay the most powerful figure in the world. Then that brings in the topic of power and corruption...but that's another theory for another time.