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Re: 911? "why is it you care so much that your government is tracking you? Sure it may not be right, but you seem outright paranoid about it."
Some people are more sensitive about their privacy than others. I'm old enough that I am one of them. I think it's a generational thing. Younger people seem to have less concern about the feeling that they may be monitored constantly, seem to crave attention and fame and to be more exhibitionistic than in the past. I think these things are related.
"If the FBI is going to track you, they're not going to go just randomly choose, they're going to be tracking people with high level interest,"
This is a question of what is technically feasible. As technology progresses and it becomes possible, and relatively inexpensive, to track everyone 24 hours a day the government will do it. I'm not saying this because I'm a paranoid person, nor am I an anti-government right winger in case you were wondering. I'm saying this because it is the nature of power and the human desire for ever increasing control by those who have it. | |
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kudos:1 | said by asdfdfdfdfdf :
This is a question of what is technically feasible. As technology progresses and it becomes possible, and relatively inexpensive, to track everyone 24 hours a day the government will do it. While it will reach that point some day, we are still a long ways away. Our county does GPS tracking of our vehicle fleet (ironically through a different Sprint portal). The combined space-time coordinate + metadata is not that small, but when you record it every 30 seconds (even tossing out the zero movement points) for a big enough fleet, it rapidly builds up. Even now we only have enough storage to store about 7 days before we have to toss it. While it might be possible to track anyone, tracking everyone and retaining the information still is a ways off.
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join:2002-03-05 | Hopefully our government will never have this capability. If it has, we've let it go too far. Unfortunately at that point it will likely be impossible for us to also consider measures to limit and/or reduce its power.
Perhaps the time will come when more people will realize the danger of giving too much freedom and power to others in the name of "safety" or "security". But as long as the Facebook/Twitter/MySpace social networking crowd continues down the "Look at me! Pictures of my drunken state as last night's party!" path, I fear that won't happen. The problem with giving everybody their 15 minutes of fame, is that everybody has 15 minutes of fame.
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