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Posted on 06/02/2009 4:47:26 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
Is this subject to abuse? Someone sent me this video so I don't know the details. I expect we will hear a lot more about it soon.
Government was never meant to be trusted. That's why you have the Constitution.
If you can keep it, I'm sorry to say. :-(
You mean criminals like the DHS tried to warn about?
But too often there seems to be a “mission” creep in these kinds of things.
They sold the seat belt law in Ohio saying it would never be a primary offense.
RICO was only going to be used against what we think of as the Mafia and similar criminal organizations.
And who would have thought they would use SWAT Teams the way they do?
We have to be careful about stuff like this.
That car was used in an armed robbery?
I thought you Yanks ran a gun-free zone! ;p
"The "nothing to hide" argument speaks to some problems, but not to others. It represents a singular and narrow way of conceiving of privacy, and it wins by excluding consideration of the other problems often raised in government surveillance and data mining programs. When engaged with directly, the "nothing to hide" argument can ensnare, for it forces the debate to focus on its narrow understanding of privacy. But when confronted with the plurality of privacy problems implicated by government data collection and use beyond surveillance and disclosure, the "nothing to hide" argument, in the end, has nothing to say."...
..."I've Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel J. Solove, George Washington University Law School San Diego Law Review, Vol. 44, No. #, 2007; GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 289.
A good article on the subject... If you have nothing to hide, you have everything to fear By Michael Hampton
When guns are outlawed....
"That was in Canada. I wonder if there is anything that would prevent it from being used in the states? (Or is it already being used?)"
The system is being extensively used in the UK and Motorola is actively marketing it to police agencies in the US. For example it is being used by the Sarasota County Sheriff in Florida.
jedi150 wrote:
"Police State aka Canada"
A dog sniffs its own arse first.
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Hey, I’m older than dirt, don’t expect perfection!
That's part of the problem. Eventually government will become so powerful & out of control that all of us will eventually have something to hide.
Back in WWII Germany all you needed to hide was your genetic make-up (ever heard of the Holocaust?); in the Soviet USSR, it was your class position & also your ethnicity.
In today's USA it is the contents in your urine...&, thanks to Obama, your religious & political views, & eventually, who knows what else?
“AOPR is going to revolutionize the way we police in North America.”
Scary thought, ain’t it?
I bet the crime rate in North Korea is pretty low. YIPPEEEEEEEEE!!!
>>That’s part of the problem. Eventually government will become so powerful & out of control that all of us will eventually have something to hide.
On that note, see the first quote on my FR profile page.
Welcome to the Panopticon.
Sure, everything is these days.
But there has to be at least a half dozen ways to fool the stupid computer, also.
Locate an auto of the same make & color. Stealthily swap plates, & voila'.
Fooled the computer.
While the clueless LEO blissfully cruises through the parking lot/highway/road on their *nice* ride.
Why would any free person EVER have trusted the government, even in more innocent times. There's a reason it's called the govern-ment.
Yes. If we have nothing to hide, we should even have every room of our homes under government surveillance, and online.
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