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Consider that some teenagers run away from bad situations. I’m not sure that identifying and locating them is in their best interests. So, who should control t
by ttyprintk 6y ago
Consider that some teenagers run away from bad situations. I’m not sure that identifying and locating them is in their best interests.
So, who should control that great central database? In some countries, law enforcement would have a tendencies to blackmail people who are trying not to be found.
- javajosh 6y agoThere are many downsides to the panopticon - I'm asking specifically about an upside. And, since we don't see this upside, I wonder how much of a working panopticon we really have. The urge to locate missing kids (or missing people in general) is politically very strong, so it would make sense that it would be done if it could be done. Then again, it could be that national security requires that the technology be deployed sparingly, lest the counter-party learn to avoid it. But this seems less likely to me.
- ttyprintk 6y agoUnfortunately, in the USA, the cause of reuniting families after a kidnapping has been politically subverted to try to connect an emotional issue to conspiracy theories. Where families are actually separated, one particular party is in control. And to cover for that, they whip up stories about kidnapping rings where the other party is in control.