A Law to Spy Back on Government Surveillance Cameras?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 17, 2007 @07:51AM from the who's-gonna-monitor-the-monitors-of-the-monitors. dept.

mattnyc99 writes "As the Senate begins debate today on wider new surveillance legislation, Instapundit blogger and University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds has an interesting op-ed as part of Popular Mechanics' cover story on the looming power of spy cameras in America. He cites numerous court cases to argue that our privacy concerns may be backwards, and that there should be a new law for citizen rights — that if Big Brother can keep an eye on us in public spaces, we ought to be able to look back. From the accompanying podcast: 'Realistically I don't think we're going to get much in the way of limits on government and business surveillance. So I think we should be focusing more on making it safe, on making it a double-edged sword.'"

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Two wrongs don't make a right by jockeys · 2007-12-17 07:56 · Score: 5, Insightful

Us doing it to them doesn't really make them doing it to us and less wrong.

The medicine is still nasty underneath all that sugar.

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1. Re:Two wrongs don't make a right by 0xdeadbeef · 2007-12-17 08:24 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  The ability to monitor the government is a necessary foundation for free and open society. It is not a second "wrong", it's a fundamental right that has been increasingly trampled upon.