Webcams to Enforce Singapore Quarantine

magarity writes "Singapore has hired a private security firm to install internet connected webcams in homes of persons quarantined for SARS in order to watch them to see if they go out. They are considering adding electronic wristbands as well. 9 of the 490 persons have broken the quarantine despite a fine of 10,000 singapore dollars ($5,621US). Just over 100 people worldwide have died from SARS so far."

Comments

What's the big deal?

[Telastyn]

Why are we quarantining people over something with a 4% mortality rate? [thanks google]

We don't put electronic trackers on people with measles. Yet more government knee-jerk reactions....

This just goes to show...

[b.foster]

...that despite one (maybe two soon) PATRIOT acts, Terry v. Ohio, the DMCA, Microsoft, military tribunals, and John Ashcroft, this is still a better place to live than 95% of the other countries in the world. At least here we don't lock people up and invade the privacy of their homes just because they're sick.

$DEITY Bless America!

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[Joe the Lesser]

Wife been cheating on you? Annoying stalker on your nerves? Just call in that they have SARS, and let Big Brother control your problems!

Or for a more serious solution, just call in that they're a terrorist, and let the PATRIOT act have it's way!

So many great ways to accuse people and have their rights taken away, yay!