Posted on 02/07/2002 10:08:28 PM PST by exodus
Already, authorities can come into your house without a warrant. They can search your property, take whatever they feel will be useful, and they don't even have to tell you that they were there.
Imagine that not only can they come into your house, they can tell WITHOUT coming into your house what you are doing, what you are watching, what appliances you used that day, who you talked to, and what you said to them.
I believe that it would be VERY intriguing to those who seek to make sure we're "safe."
Information easily aquired.
That's fine when I want to know something,
but not so good when someone wants to violate my privacy.
Really?!
I wonder what else presence software could be used for.
Sure, I could be followed on the internet but all they'd know is what time I spent on the internet and where I visited. I've assumed anyone who wants to know this already has a way to find it. But when I sign off, I'm not accessible.
20 years ago, people had a landlocked home phone and some had an answering machine and everyone was more-or-less happy with it. Then came telemarketers and beepers and pagers and cell phones and e-mail then spam mail and IM and pretty soon people needed to sort out the people they wanted to give access to from the people they didn't. So now you see Caller IDs and voicemails and technology such as this. Frankly, I'd be happier if we canned all this allegedly liberating technology (except e-mail), make telemarketing and spamming capital crimes (one strike and you're dead law) and go back to a nice peaceful existence where the phone rang only when a friend or family member was trying to reach you and your e-mail was only from folks you give a %$&* about.
Peace. What a novel concept.
See?!
Already, someone can imagine new uses for this "presence" software. Isn't technology wonderful?
I'm with you, Tall_Texan.
There is a use for communication technology, but it's been allowed to become much too invasive. Being able to talk to those you care about is good, but privacy is just as important.
Yes, it is, nopardons.
Most people will accept it without a thought, never realizing what they've given up. It's SO convenient to know when someone is available, and I can even tell when Momma is awake!
I know that the kid is at school, in the gym. I know that my wife is at Walmart, in the craft section. They know where I am, too.
So do other people, people you don't even know. Strangers. People who patrol outside your house, who's job it is to "protect and serve." The good guys.
But here's also people who aren't so good, the bad guys. And they have access to the same information. I really don't want to make THEIR job easier.
I don't want anyone ( not even my own kiddo ) to know where I am, every minute of every day ; let alone crooks, for whom, this would be a GOD send. My kiddo already HAS mental radar, and calls the minute I am serving dinner, no matter what time that is.
How to shrink big government to limited government. Get businesses to ostracize the government - stop selling the government products and services -- on the premise that the government can't be trusted to do the right thing more often than it does the wrong thing. Proof is that government is several times larger than the people need. Obviously there are certain products and services that a limited government requires to defend individual rights. Everything else is ostracized.
How about tracking politicians and bureaucrats so that every store clerk will know at the register to ostracize the politician or bureaucrat. "Sorry, but we don't sell to politicians that violate their oath of office to the people and the constitution and write/pass unconstitutional laws -- get out now and don't come back." Same goes for parasitical elite that advocate and support the politicians that violate their oath of office. "Sorry, but we don't sell our goods and services to any person that advocates or supports or is complicit in politicians violating their oath of office. Yes Mr. Rather, that means you are ostracized, leave now and don't come back."
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