If governments, churches, parents, or employers mandated that, most of us would object.
“Yet we all carry mobile phones.” 😯
See! “They” do not have to mandate it! Why try to coerce us into doing something when we can be conditioned to do voluntarily and cheerfully?
I’m telling you — it just ain’t complicated. 😆
PS: No, I don’t have anything to hide. Well, actually, I do. Why else would I use private email? And window drapes? And sealed envelopes? And sophisticated passwords? And secure network connections?
Good, concise summary of the situation, Mark; it amazes me how many of us are still blithely ignorant of this reality. However, I’m really curious now; do you really use *private* email? You mention email and sealed envelopes in the same sentence, but normal email is much more like a post card than a sealed envelope—any of the people involved in the delivery process are free to read it without legal repercussions (and probably without ethical qualms). Google has recently gone on public record saying that email users have “no legitimate expectation of privacy” since they’re voluntarily turning over the information to third parties (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57598420-93/google-filing-says-gmail-users-have-no-expectation-of-privacy/). No one should be encouraged to think of email as a private mode of communication unless they’re encrypting it themselves; then the analogy to a sealed envelope becomes valid. The sender and recipient are still public, but the message is now private.