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Ubiquitous Surveillance

Posted by michael on from the panopticon dept.

lightray writes: "The New York Times is running an article titled A Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance which gives an alarming view of America's possible future -- and Britain's present." Excellent article, just excellent. (The author has also written a good book on privacy recently.) "And rather than thwarting serious crime, the cameras are being used to enforce social conformity in ways that Americans may prefer to avoid."

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  1. no, that's not what he's saying! by twitter · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    On other words, what you're saying is that if it had been a GOOD camera, they would have caught the criminals. What I see in these complaints (and the ones in the article) is that putting phony crap cameras doesn't do any good. Well, duh.

    What he's saying, ass, is that there CAN NOT be enough cameras to do any good! There will always be a hiding spot for foul deeds. All these cameras do, in his opinion, is bore the people that man them. He then recomends using armed police who could do something if they saw, or heard it. Duh yourself.

    Oh wait, it's Reality Master 101, I've been trolled.

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