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Warning on spread of state surveillance
The Guardian ^
| April 21, 2005
| Richard Norton-Taylor
Posted on 04/20/2005 7:34:10 PM PDT by tomball
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:34:10 PM PDT
by
tomball
To: tomball
Still, there's only so much you can do with all that information. Remember, when Joe Stalin wanted to kill people he simply did it.
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:35:46 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: tomball
That's odd. The Guardian is upset over privacy intrusion? What about the zillion and a half cameras all over Britain already that count the hairs on their bums?
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:36:55 PM PDT
by
WorkingClassFilth
(Get after the RAT's all of you cat people - earn your keep!)
To: tomball
These initiatives, say the civil liberty groups, are not effective in identifying terrorists Maybe they are only trying to identify socialists?
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:37:12 PM PDT
by
KC_for_Freedom
(Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
To: tomball
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:41:26 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
To: tomball
Afraid of someone seeing you pick your nose?
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:43:00 PM PDT
by
SolidRedState
(E Pluribus Funk --- (Latin taglines are sooooo cool! Don't ya think?))
To: SolidRedState
"
Governments are building a "global registration and surveillance infrastructure" in the US-led "war on terror", civil liberty groups warned yesterday." Yea right. this is pure fear mongering. They can't even watch the mexican/US border in one state, and hold illegals in custody, deport them, or keep track of them. This is laughable to say the least.
To: WorkingClassFilth
I can see CCTV really taking off when technology allows unintrusive personal cameras attached to clothing so that you can record everything happening in a 360 degree radius during your day. It would give you the chance to use it as evidence in crimes, car accidents, lawsuits, arguments, etc so that you wouldn't have to bother protesting your innocence.
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:49:11 PM PDT
by
bobdsmith
To: SolidRedState
Now that you mention it.. yes, yes I am.. Especially when I get those big green goey ones.. Mmmmmmm LoL
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:49:55 PM PDT
by
scab4faa
(My mom says I'm cool.)
To: scab4faa
Please tell me you don't eat them...
To: tomball
The next step these evil monsters have in store for us is a National ID.
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posted on
04/20/2005 7:58:27 PM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: Doe Eyes
Don't be naive, you already have that, and had it for decades. You just need to put your picture on it, and make it usefull rather than make a whole new separate one which will just waste more tax dollars. It's called a social security card.
To: bobdsmith
With video tech costs plummeting as fast as inovation is rising, it won't be far off.
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posted on
04/20/2005 8:28:16 PM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: tomball
We, in the task force community, sleep with our backs to our backs...
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posted on
04/20/2005 8:31:06 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
To: bobdsmith
Microsecond by microsecond, thread by thread, we will not cease until resistance is understood to be futile...
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posted on
04/20/2005 8:33:24 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
To: SolidRedState
LOL. The propaganda just rolls on. If anyone bothers to look up and around in any US city, they will find cameras watching everyone, everywhere, and at all times. Cameras are at every stop light, inside and outside every government building, inside every gas station (over cash registers), inside every bank, in every cop car (dash cam), etc. Privacy rights have been a thing of the past for a long time. It just took a few years longer for The Guardian to notice it.
There is plenty of nose pickin' being watched. Little did Alan Funt know just how far his Candid Camera would go.
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posted on
04/20/2005 8:36:28 PM PDT
by
tomball
To: tomball
Plus, soon all cameras will be networked for searches using facial algorithms, etc..
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posted on
04/20/2005 8:40:33 PM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: tomball
If this is true:
"an agreement between Europol...and the US giving...American agencies access to sensitive information on the race, political opinions, religious beliefs, health and sexual life of individuals"
Why aren't they more worried that Europol even has that info before worrying about who they are sharing it with?
To: WorkingClassFilth
LOL! My thoughts exactly. The twist is to have one think that it's "US-led." Heck, when gov't snoops look to creating a MATRIX-like data base they look at London...
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posted on
04/20/2005 10:04:49 PM PDT
by
endthematrix
(Declare 2005 as the year the battle for freedom from tax slavery!)
To: bobdsmith
They have (had) this. You are thinking of some kind of
LifeLog by DARPA. They had "canceled" the program, but since the tech has been to the private sector. Gordon Bell, now with Microsoft, calls it a "surrogate memory." Check Microsoft's research into
MyLifeBits Project
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posted on
04/20/2005 10:27:51 PM PDT
by
endthematrix
(Declare 2005 as the year the battle for freedom from tax slavery!)
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