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Welcome To Surveillance Nation

(MrFisk)
7 years 2 months 4 weeks ago

"From facial recognition to license plate recognition devices, law enforcement agencies know more and more about you every day." -- digg

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enoch

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siftbot

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by enoch.

MilkmanDan says...

This, to me, is why Snowden falls 100% into the "hero" box rather than "traitor".

Are there legitimate, beneficial-to-society ways to use surveillance? Sure. Like catching those arson/murderers mentioned in the video. Are there legitimately scary-as-fuck 1984-esque ways to abuse surveillance? Absolutely.

The problem is that we can't decide as a society where the line between acceptable and unacceptable is if we don't know exactly what surveillance is going on and how it is being used. At the very least, I think we need to know enough to be certain that normal legal rights are maintained -- principles like innocence until proven guilty, no ex-post-facto laws/prosecution, and other constitutional protections.