"People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security." -Benjamin Franklin.
So what's wrong with the attitude "the truly innocent have nothing to fear?"
Who then determines who's "truly innocent?"
a couple of thoughts:
One glitch in all this data and tracking technology is the problem of too much information... how is it stored and recovered? CARNIVORE and similar technologies in use and on the table help, but cast a very wide net indeed. Like a tuna net that catches a lot of other species that aren't wanted, but suffer, die, and wind up tinned with the tuna.
Who will rummage through all this info? How accurate will it be? Call it "sorry about that," or "collateral damage."
The NSA alone tracks millions of 'phone calls world wide daily, just for an example.
The technology will only improve.
If it doesn't bother you that your government can do this, consider: who else can do it?
The government is usually 'way behind the curve compared to private sector, and PS can sell to whomever can pay for it.
Does the current plague of Identity Theft alarm you? Maybe it should. Personally, i'm a light consumer, but what scant data track i have left has been well mined and has been used against me already.
"A Paranoic is just someone who is aware of what's really going on."
"Now, Mrs. Entity, we recovered your lost child through microchip tracking. And we only destroyed the lives of 23 people who happened to have the same name as the perp. It was a dirty job, but we apologised to their next-of-kin."
Gee whiz, a genuine Goverment Apology to my next-of-kin would make ME feel a whole lot better, eh?
Where does it stop?
So what's wrong with the attitude "the truly innocent have nothing to fear?"
Who then determines who's "truly innocent?"
a couple of thoughts:
One glitch in all this data and tracking technology is the problem of too much information... how is it stored and recovered? CARNIVORE and similar technologies in use and on the table help, but cast a very wide net indeed. Like a tuna net that catches a lot of other species that aren't wanted, but suffer, die, and wind up tinned with the tuna.
Who will rummage through all this info? How accurate will it be? Call it "sorry about that," or "collateral damage."
The NSA alone tracks millions of 'phone calls world wide daily, just for an example.
The technology will only improve.
If it doesn't bother you that your government can do this, consider: who else can do it?
The government is usually 'way behind the curve compared to private sector, and PS can sell to whomever can pay for it.
Does the current plague of Identity Theft alarm you? Maybe it should. Personally, i'm a light consumer, but what scant data track i have left has been well mined and has been used against me already.
"A Paranoic is just someone who is aware of what's really going on."
"Now, Mrs. Entity, we recovered your lost child through microchip tracking. And we only destroyed the lives of 23 people who happened to have the same name as the perp. It was a dirty job, but we apologised to their next-of-kin."
Gee whiz, a genuine Goverment Apology to my next-of-kin would make ME feel a whole lot better, eh?
Where does it stop?
-mw.
QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES?
-Juvenal.
QUID RIDES? MUTATO NOMINE DE TE FABULA NARRATUR.
-Horace.
