That's why most IT people have such a mean exterior. Maybe if I intimidate the users I'm responsible for, they'll think twice the next time they're being complacent. Okay, not the first time but thats where the intimidation factor comes in that's why I said the "next" time.
How can something that takes video of you when you are in public, with no expectation of privacy, be invasive? Take a video in my window, I agree, that's invasive and I do have an expectation of privacy.
But not every piece of technology is evil. I remember when people screamed because if you get a pet from some pounds they put a chip under the pets skin so as to be able to identify the pet. People screamed and cried, this could be used to track the owner of the pet, what if the owner didn't want their pet to be identified? Well, after the hurricanes here in Florida, lots of people changed their tune when they got their lost pets back.
Then there were the tags that stores could use to take a continuous inventory. People screamed because, theoretically, someone could pull up in front of your house and point an antenna at your front door and tell everything you had purchased from the store. Yeah, so? I really don't think that what I bought at Walmart is going to be so interesting to anyone that they're going to bother.
Let's get real. Worry about the stuff that counts, wiretapping for no reason, going through my mail, warrantless searches and seizures.
Public video cameras are just that, public. They could sit a plain cloths Cop on the corner and get the same information.
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That's why most IT people have such a mean exterior. Maybe if I intimidate the users I'm responsible for, they'll think twice the next time they're being complacent. Okay, not the first time but thats where the intimidation factor comes in that's why I said the "next" time.
But not every piece of technology is evil. I remember when people screamed because if you get a pet from some pounds they put a chip under the pets skin so as to be able to identify the pet. People screamed and cried, this could be used to track the owner of the pet, what if the owner didn't want their pet to be identified? Well, after the hurricanes here in Florida, lots of people changed their tune when they got their lost pets back.
Then there were the tags that stores could use to take a continuous inventory. People screamed because, theoretically, someone could pull up in front of your house and point an antenna at your front door and tell everything you had purchased from the store. Yeah, so? I really don't think that what I bought at Walmart is going to be so interesting to anyone that they're going to bother.
Let's get real. Worry about the stuff that counts, wiretapping for no reason, going through my mail, warrantless searches and seizures.
Public video cameras are just that, public. They could sit a plain cloths Cop on the corner and get the same information.