Re: Transhuman fascists?

From: Rob Sweeney (rjs@rsie.com)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 23:14:42 MST


* Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net> [000329 01:06]:
> Do we really have a civil right to privacy? I know we have always
> assumed that we do, but suppose I have one of those cool airplane
> thingies with the 18 gram camera in it, 15 cm wingspan, 75 gram
> total. I fly it over your house and for some reason I like to gawk
> at you. Have I actually broken any laws?

Uh.. trespassing? What's the law on air rights? If I shoot your plane down
with a model rocket, have >I< broken any laws?

I suspect total surveillance would quickly lead to an arms race.. though
in this case perhaps a fun one. /rs

--
Rob Sweeney: Information Ecology. rjs@rsie.com, http://www.rsie.com/
Time is a warning.


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