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Originally Posted by Hank
Front page of the Metro paper this morning:
"Spy more on your citizens - Councils are urged to snoop"
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The thing that worries me most is that so many people JUST DON'T GET IT!
BT: We're ONLY watching your habits for advertising
COUNCILS: We're ONLY targeting criminals
GOV: We're ONLY stopping terrorism and organised crime
So many people in positions of responsibility see the benefits of snooping for whatever reason but no-one seems to see the down-side.
I suggest a dose of reading up on life in 1980's communist Germany and other Eastern Bloc countries, where the first worry on the mind of many, who were not terrorists or criminals, was what they said on the phone or hotel rooms or even their own home for the worry of being monitored and misconstrued.
Okay, terrorism is very bad, but what about a life free of terrorism where you're always looking over your shoulder?
Or an interenet where you're afraid to type something totally legitimate into a search engine because of a worry that it will be misconstrued? Children researching 20th centuary history google Atomic Bomb to read about the lead up to the bombing of Japan in WWII?
Are law makers today really so blind as to see the long term damage to society that short term gain may bring?
Profiling, monitoring, Phorming, it's just wrong, plain and simple.