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Inevitably complete electronic surveillance of communications will be used for insider trading, implicating enemies/competitors in crimes, and suppression of jo
by willholloway 13y ago
Inevitably complete electronic surveillance of communications will be used for insider trading, implicating enemies/competitors in crimes, and suppression of journalists and politically unfavorable activists.
Giant corporations competing for market share need to consider the operational security implications of bribable government employees having access to their trade secrets and strategies.
The recent case of the NYC cop that was planning on kidnapping and eating women would be chilling enough, but becomes even more horrifying when you learn that he was using law enforcement databases to stalk potential victims.
No human or group of humans can be trusted with total information awareness.
- finnh 13y agoExactly. Just look at the Spitzer thing - outed for political reasons based on data collected "because of the terrorists". And do those who say "if you've got nothing to hide, it's not a problem," I ask the classic question: "so, why do you own curtains?"