From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 22:05:04 MDT
>From: "Billy Brown" <bbrown@transcient.com>
>
>However, since in actual fact about 99% of the population is adamantly
>opposed to government surveillance of private spaces, the only way you can
>have transparency is by erecting an authoritarian state charged with
>installing the surveillance system at gunpoint. If you do that, you've
>already lost your freedom, and the odds that the state will give it back
>are
>just about zero.
If I have a micro-camera that I wear all the time (much like the L.A. County
Sherriffs), and you invite me into your private spaces, is that government
surveillance? Now say 20% of the population wears the same kind of device.
Heck it becomes so handy to vid-conference with friends and family whenever
you get the whim, imagine that everyone who now carries a cell phone
everywhere they go, trades in the cell phone for a micro-cell-cam. Now
everyone you talk to, everywhere you go is potentially recording everything
you say and do.
Looky there Big Brother didn't even have to lift a finger to do it, and you
can't blame him when every lie you ever tell ends up on America's Funniest
Home Videos!!
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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