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I highly doubt you are pro privacy even a little bit, and it is foolish endeavour to trade liberty for promised safety.. You start off on the assumption that e
by syshum 9y ago
I highly doubt you are pro privacy even a little bit, and it is foolish endeavour to trade liberty for promised safety..
You start off on the assumption that everyone agrees that aircraft should be tracked, and that data should be open to law enforcement review with no warrant. To the extent the data can be justified for safety it should be limited to that purpose only and barred by law from being used in any other manner. That is not how the law is today, as these records are used in all kinds of legal cases (both civil and criminal) outside of need for safety.
People that are actually pro privacy understand how these records are used and do not desire to see it expand to the tracking of every car on the road as a car is much more personally identifiable than a plane, and is in much more common usage.
in short, Maybe automobiles should not be treated differently and maybe it is time to look at how aircraft are tracked and what that tracking is used for changing the law to be more privacy focused
- jdavis703 9y agoI donate hundreds of dollars annually to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, so I have a vested interest in privacy protection. That said I ride public transit routinely. There are cameras in the buses and trains. There are smart cards that store a record of every station and bus line I tag in and out of. There are cops with bomb and drug sniffing dogs. The point is there is a strong and historic precedent that transportation systems are monitored. There are even creepy announcements urging riders to report odd acitivty to throw authorities, of which I've been on the wrong end of more than once.
- syshum 9y ago>>I donate hundreds of dollars annually to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, so I have a vested interest in privacy protection. Do you want a gold star? that in no way proves you have a "vested interest" in privacy, that just proves you have give some money to charity. > The point is there is a strong and historic precedent that transportation systems are monitored Yes and people that have a "vested interest" in privacy are concerned about and have problems with the current levels of surveillance on these systems,
- UncleEntity 9y ago> The point is there is a strong and historic precedent that transportation systems are monitored. You do realize there is a difference between public and private transportation, right? I have yet to see a precedent that supports the government getting as much data as TFA talks about while using my private transportation system. Or the Supreme Court deciding that making a person wait until "cops with bomb and drug sniffing dogs" show up to a traffic stop without probable cause is an "unreasonable search". I could go on and on...