Preventing horrific criminal acts requires some sort of profiling. This simply formalizes what we do in everyday life. Do you wait for someone to actually assault you before avoiding a suspicious character. Prudent human behavior requries that people make judgements about how someone else will behave based on so-called "lifestyle" characterstics. Common human experience gives us the ability to judge individual character based on behavior, appearance and lifestyle. A society where people can move about anonymously negates the ability to judge and exposes us all to unacceptable risks.
The fact is, we either adopt something like this or we will descend into the chaos of unrestrained criminality.
Larry Ellison's self-serving behavior in promoting this should not be held against the goals of systems like this.
Folks, you give up this sort of information willingly to enjoy the benefits of living in this society. The problem isn't gathering information about public acts, its people who don't believe they should be accountable for these acts, and who hide behind anonymity to take advantage of us all.
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Preventing horrific criminal acts requires some sort of profiling. This simply formalizes what we do in everyday life. Do you wait for someone to actually assault you before avoiding a suspicious character. Prudent human behavior requries that people make judgements about how someone else will behave based on so-called "lifestyle" characterstics. Common human experience gives us the ability to judge individual character based on behavior, appearance and lifestyle. A society where people can move about anonymously negates the ability to judge and exposes us all to unacceptable risks. The fact is, we either adopt something like this or we will descend into the chaos of unrestrained criminality. Larry Ellison's self-serving behavior in promoting this should not be held against the goals of systems like this. Folks, you give up this sort of information willingly to enjoy the benefits of living in this society. The problem isn't gathering information about public acts, its people who don't believe they should be accountable for these acts, and who hide behind anonymity to take advantage of us all.