When people would tell others about this before Snowden, they were simply paranoid, conspiracy theorist, and crazy. So what is it when you remove theory from "conspiracy theory" ... ? "Across the country, police departments are amassing records of Americans’ ordinary movements through the use of automated license-plate readers. Twenty-seven states are using facial-recognition technology to match surveillance footage with DMV mug shots. Just recently, a federal court ruled police departments did not need a warrant to obtain your cellphone records. These are just a few of the ways government is keeping tabs on Americans, and there are more coming down the pike – from the insurance-reporting requirements of Obamacare to the proposal that all Americans carry biometric ID cards to improve immigration enforcement. Supporters of all this government surveillance sometimes say that “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” The fallacy inherent in that statement entails its assuming people want privacy only to hide what is incriminating. But privacy is about much more than dirty little secrets. There is nothing incriminating about a prostate exam or gynecology checkup, for instance – but few people would want to have one on live TV. Some things are simply nobody else’s business. " reason/archives/2013/09/11/yes-america-you-are-being-watched
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:10:13 +0000
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