[M. Peach]

I find the loss of our freedom and liberties inevitible. The more terrorists attack us - the more liberties we will lose in the name of security. Every time we plug a loophole - another one opens somewhere else by terrorists or "enemies of the state" until we are totally monitored - 24/7.

My opinon is that two situations are inevitable. Either someone or some country destroys everything living or human on earth - or governments will have total control and authority over all of us.

What is your opinion?

[ISawIt]

Actually, both you and Dr. Warmoose are missing the
point. This is all inevitable.

Whereas 40 years ago it was unthinkable to have such a
gadget as a camcorder, now any schmuck with $299 can go to
a store and buy a foolproof legal witness.

The Government may not be recording you, but someone else
probably is.

So now we're getting exercised about character recognition,
face recognition, and automated shot segmentation.

Guess what. This tech has been around for 10 years for
private industry. It's now affordable for the DoD.

10 years from now, Bill Gates (or someone like him) will
be selling the box to do it at Wal-Mart. Want to know who
keeps tee-pee-ing your house? Which neighbors' dog is
depositing the turds on your front step? Buy the box.

What's more important is to ensure that all of these
private-and-local-authority-generated data do not get
centralized into a database where some chair-warming
bureaucrat-cum-entrepreneur can decide to quit their
$40 an hour job and make a quick score selling a database
to the Russian Mob or whoever.