An Expectation of Privacy, an Expectation of Freedom

When I stand at a bus stop, warming under a heat lamp, I don't have an expectation of privacy.  It is, after all, a public place.  Or sit at the park, I am there.  But my little communications, well..

I know, I've heard it - any email you send - be willing to have it on a billboard along I-5.  Or maybe thats just work emails, which can be subject to sniping re-broadcast. I get this, and should have no expectation of privacy at work.  I am using, after all, my employer's computer, bandwidth, heat, light.

Which is why I love my smart phone.  I don't need IT spying on me sending a message to my daughter.  Or to anyone else for that matter.  Or what internet sites I would search on my break - its all my private information.  Or is it?

Now The Government has it.  Who I talked to on my cell phone, which Facebook sites I am on, who follows me on twitter (thank you!), who I've sent email to.  Should I have an expectation of privacy?  Does my ATT carrier care about my 1st amendment rights?  Do I still have those?

I have been thinking about freedom recently.  Freedom to be respected as a human, as any human deserves.  Now what about this DNA thing - the Supreme Court decided that its "just like fingerprints".  Maybe next they will want a sample of my spleen, in case someone out there requires a spleen that is more worthy of me, they can commandeer me (from the sample they took when I was 5 miles over the speed limit) and determine someone else is more worthy than me?

When I think about freedom, or about my worthiness, I am reminded we are all made in His image.  All worthy of respect.  All deserving of freedom.  I am going to talk to who I want, tweet what I want, and live my life Today, and Every Day.