What was in Henry Kissinger's garbage?

An interesting question. In 1975, Henry Kissinger was one of the most notorious and controversial people in the country,

and he discovered that the National

Inquirer was rifling through his garbage looking for clues. What was in his

garbage and was it okay for the inquirer to look through it?

Konichia, it's Nick in Fukuoka Japan and this is a special archived episode of akimbo. In 1988, the Supreme Court issued a ruling written by Byron White about whether it was

okay for the police to look through someone's garbage without a warrant.

In that ruling, White pointed out that Kissinger's garbage had been looked through 13 years earlier and he basically said

once you put it in the garbage it's out there and it's no longer in your control

but this this is not a podcast about garbage. It's a podcast about privacy.

And my thesis just to let you know up front is that most people don't care about privacy. What we care about is being surprised. Here's the

thing I know a lot about you. I know that you listen to this podcast.

If I wanted to, I could dig a little deeper and find out the IP address of the people who

listened to this podcast.

And using that IP address, I could find out what other websites people who listen have been to and deeper

and deeper down the rabbit hole all the way to the point of probably guessing

pretty accurately who you voted for in the last election. Of course I don't

know any of those things because I'm not looking but the data is there and if you

care about privacy, you don't use the internet and you don't have a

credit card. Because 30 or 40 or 50 years ago, if you used a credit card the credit card company knew in

quotation marks almost everything about your buying habits and your travel

habits they knew where you flew and who you flew with. They could

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