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If people are complaining about airport security being intrusive now, think about the complaints that would result if this were to come about. While it's a nift
by maxko87 14y ago
If people are complaining about airport security being intrusive now, think about the complaints that would result if this were to come about. While it's a nifty idea, this "spying" would never bode well with passengers, even in comparison to current standards.
On the other hand, this type of comprehensive filming already happens at banks and other institutions, so it is possible that after all the immediate sensationalism, people would get used to it.
- tokenizer 14y agoI think that all of the privacy issues we face today will seem ordinary in the future. It was only a matter of time before we started to monitor and manage ourselves to this level of scrutiny.
- nitrogen 14y agoI must object to your use of the word "ourselves" in this context. I didn't vote for these systems or the politicians who want them, and accepting shared blame for the actions of a select few is not to my taste. I also disagree with the inherent inevitability of totalitarian surveillance. Were mankind not so subject to irrational fear, manipulation, and political warmongering, most of the problems that are "solved" by intrusive monitoring would go away.
- tokenizer 14y agoI wish I could have your optimism. But I believe that unless the millennials and gen-y-ers radically shift political thought, most governments will go in this way. Security to protect ourselves against ourselves, up to the extent of thoughts possibly... I agree with you 100% in that I also disagree with the general direction, I meant ourselves in the way that if it happens, we let it happen.