Privacy issues more important than solving child abductions?

I didn't know this. It's stupid. "Privacy?" When checkers at airports can touch your genitalia?!? Please. Just more endless evidence that the politically correct inmates are running the asylum our country has become. Maggiepie "The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is really a large matter; it's the difference between the lightning-bug & the lightning." ~ Mark Twain

Wrong Wrong Wrong!! Reminds me of a story I keep seeing on the news here. They're talking about installing cameras in key locations around a bad side of town in our big city here. There is a lot of crime down there, especially homicides and other violent crimes. The cameras that are to be installed are to help catch the criminals and hopefully deter crime from happening in these areas. However the neighborhood is all up in arms about the fact that these cameras (which are being placed at street corners) are a violation to their privacy. Um.. okay, if they're putting the camera in your house, yeah, that's a violation of privacy.. but we're talking about the street here, where crime actually happens frequently! Why would anyone be opposed to that? If it made the streets even 1% safer I'd be all for it!

I am not sure how it works in Australia but I think that in the case of child abduction the Taxation Office would release the details required to the police. I am surprised that cases like the one in the story are not handled by the federal police. It is a ridiculous situation and common sense has definitely not prevailed in this case

Honest? I think there are many areas where you Americans have gone overboard. :) Privacy is just one of them. :)

Surely at this age of technology, private information could be sorted out. And the difference between what should be kept and not should be a little bit easier. Maybe a cross referencing of missing children's list with children claimed as exemption. Maybe we find a lot more missing children if we did this. Anyway, priorities need to be sorted.

this is crazy. how can the government put the taxpayers rights above that of the children ? shouldn't the safty of the children of our nation always be put first, in every situation ? there must be way to change this rediculas 'law'.

Dawnald, I think you have said it all, and yet our privacy is only important when it is the government being asked for information. If they wanted information, our privacy would be of no concern to them.

Wow, Dawn! Thanks so much for the Best Response mark! I see my star has gone up a notch, thanks to you & others who like me, I'm guessing! Maggiepie "England & America are two countries divided by a common language." ~ G.B. Shaw

Simple: Surely if the IRS has information that can solve child abduction then should no this be given? Something not quite right here or else I am just not getting it. Common sense is a very uncommon thing to have

I'm having a tough time with this one. I don't want the IRS releasing anything about me to anyone. What little privacy I have, I'd like to keep. But then, if my kid was taken, and the IRS knew his/her whereabouts???? Why not make child abduction federal crimes (then the IRS from what I think I read could be forthcoming). Don't most abductors flee to another state (or to another country), making it a federal crime, instead of a state/local issue? Anyway, I would need to get a whole lot more information before I'd change the law.

this is ridiculous. If help can be provided and it certainly is needed then it should be used. This has to be one of the most important things, when will they get their priorities sorted.