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Edward Snowden: ‘Governments can reduce our dignity to that of tagged animals’
- progressive_dad 10y agoI've often thought it would be an interesting experiment to drop cheap GPS units into the bags of the homeless and create an online tracking system.
- thatcat 10y agosounds like the obama phone program http://www.obamaphone.com/ http://www.obamaphone.com/
- datalist 10y agoI do not like such comparisons, as it (like animals) leaves the impression that such actions are just fine with anybody besides humans.
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoGenerally tagging animals is benevolent, though - scientists use RF tags to track animals in order to improve our understanding of population numbers, range, etc. So for me Snowden's analogy is a bit odd, if we tagged animals to make them easier for hunters to find, it would resonate more.