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> The people who do ask for it are obviously criminals. You're being sarcastic, but we're moving in the direction of "police need unlimited power to investigat
by dstorrs 14y ago
> The people who do ask for it are obviously criminals.
You're being sarcastic, but we're moving in the direction of "police need unlimited power to investigate, so let's make it illegal to ask for privacy". And yes, we're a long way off from that scenario (at least in the USA) but I can see it on the horizon.
The thing that really scares me is the UK system -- CCTV cameras on every corner explicitly built for surveillance. We have a lot of cameras in the US (traffic, ATM, etc) but they generally belong to different entities and there is no comprehensive framework for getting (near)real-time footage from all of them.
- excuse-me 14y agoI remember the UK when we only had the old fashioned - bombs on the streets of London - type terrorists. Then we were supposed to not give into the terrorists, but with these new hidden internet terrorists it's vital that we hand over our lives to the police.
- skymt 14y agoThe police chief of my city (Newport News VA, USA) recently declared his intention to set up surveillance cameras "from one end of this city to the other" because "I can't put a police officer on every corner" but "I might be able to put up a camera." http://www.dailypress.com/news/crime/dp-nws-police-cameras-20120519,0,1215351.story http://www.dailypress.com/news/crime/dp-nws-police-cameras-2...
- hnwh 14y agoI don't think we're as far off from that as you think, in the US..