Technocrat

The Snooper Society

zogger
Tue Sep 02 09:54:00 -0700 2008
Security.
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The digital age means a lot of data is readily accessible, which also means governments want to access it, all of it, whenever they want, for various purposes. New software and other tools along with relaxed laws on privacy or just ignoring the laws because they learned to chant the word "security", are making it easy for them to keep tabs on their own population, and on other populations outside their borders. One of the big concerns beyond just privacy concerns is getting innocently put on an "enemies of the state" list, based on perhaps flawed "pattern matching" software.

However, privacy and human rights advocates say the system bears a remarkable resemblance to China's "Golden Shield," a massive surveillance network that integrates huge information databases, internet and email monitoring, speech and facial recognition platforms in combination with CCTV monitoring. ed.z.: No more "papers, please", they already have them!

The Snooper Society
StonePiano
Tue Sep 02 17:01:54 -0700 2008
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I suspect this needs to get worse before it gets any better.  The intrusive human-management government will grow until it ultimately fails and is overthrown. Democracy is apparently ineffective in preventing the advent of this oppression.

Orwell, Rand, Huxley and others warned but cannot be heeded.  We are too busy.

 

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