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Old 03-06-2010, 06:46 AM   #33
SweetCaroline

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I canīt really say im to fond of being watched whilst somewhere outside,
on the other-side, how bad can this be ?
When in public places youīre constantly being watched/looked at by random people, atleast in this case, itīll do some good ?
That's false logic.

Firstly... one of the key features of privacy, is the difficulty in collecting information. When Facebook first introduced their feed, people went nuts... and for a good reason - while all the information displayed was publicly available, it was never immediately parsed, classified, and available in one place.

Secondly... we are citizens, not criminals. We don't need to, and don't want to be, watched at all times.

Thirdly, it will NOT do ANY good AT ALL. Look up the stats for London's "ring of steel" camera system, and how much impact it's had on crime. Oh wait - it hasn't (normalize to the overall crime rate in England, otherwise you confound the results with trends). Hundreds of thousands of cameras, and no statistically significant effects on crime rate. But tons of people prosecuted for petty offenses.

Surveillance of public spaces by government is not about crime or terrorism prevention - any security expert knows it will do neither. It's about power - power of THEM over US.

In the highly technological world, total surveillance = absolute power.
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