From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 14:28:19 MDT
owner-extropians@extropy.org wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
>> I wonder when this system will come to Virginia. If we had it now,
>> the Virginia sniper would hardly even make it into national news - he
>> would have been caught after the first shooting.
>
> Am I the only one who thinks that a system allowing you to obtain
> complete trajectories and fingerprints of all moving objects on a
> 24/7/365 manner in realtime something that is bound to be abused, and
> abused horribly? Think of all the pattern matching and
> crosscorellation analysis you could do with that data. <SHUDDER>
>
> Technology is an asymmetrical enabler, since favouring centralism. Why
> giving up privacy, which is irreversible, in face of statistically
> insignificant threats? The mind boggles.
### Why do you think that technology of this kind favors centralism?
Why should pattern matching and cross correlation be a bad thing (in a
democratic society)?
You give up privacy but gain much more - great control over your rulers.
Who will guard our guardians?, asked ancient Romans.
"We" is our answer.
Rafal
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