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I don't see a problem with individuals keeping track of what vehicles or people coming into their neighborhoods or on their property. Or with remembering that
by stretchwithme 8y ago
I don't see a problem with individuals keeping track of what vehicles or people coming into their neighborhoods or on their property. Or with remembering that for a long time.
If government needs to know, they can ask the public to check their records or get a court order if they suspect a specific route was taken during the commission of a crime.
Do I want authorities to be able to track dissidents wherever they go? No.
- brainwad 8y agoIf you don't see a problem with individuals keeping track of who comes onto their property, what's the problem with the government keeping track of who comes onto their property (i.e. public space)? Yet again, privacy advocates are trying introduce privacy into the public sphere, where it has no place. Privacy is to protect what you do in private, not what you do in public.
- adrianN 8y agoThe difference is that individuals can't build a database that covers almost all public space and allows for large scale data mining, while governments can.
- donatj 8y agoThe other difference is that individuals don’t have a reputation for genocide, whereas governments certainly do.
- brainwad 8y agoIndividuals who owned a lot of property definitely could. It's just a matter of degree, not a fundamental difference between individuals and government.
- pmiller2 8y agoAlso consider that said “individuals” may be corporations.