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You don't see any negatives to giving ubiquitous surveillance equipment to every government body?

• ceejayoz 12y ago
  Is having your eyes poked out a part of police training now? Every cop comes with two cameras, the output of which cannot be reviewed but is highly trusted in a court of law.
  • jtheory 12y ago
    This is a good point -- between a camera in every public place and a camera on every cop, the latter is far the better option, and can be empowering to the public interacting with the police. Just about everything it records is in the context of "member of the public knowingly interacting with a police officer", not "member of the public going about their everyday life" (which is much more ripe for abuse, and rather less likely to benefit the public in any way).
• serf 12y ago
  those receiving the devices are already charged with the task of acting as a form of surveillance towards the good of the state. The technology will just prevent them from cherry picking what they wish to survey. (probably a good thing with regards to crony-ism and corruption.)