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Privacy advocates resign over facial recognition plans
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:07:54 -0700
Lance Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> David would argue that the power elites will never allow themselves
> to be blinded, so that is not really one of our options. We can
> choose to watch back or not, and he would suggest that we should do
> so.
>
> There is some merit to the argument.
no there isn't.
>We can choose to watch back or not
Dishonest bullshit. Let me know when that guy david gains
access to the world's telecom networks and 'shares' it with the
serfs.
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> Lance
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> Lance Cottrell
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> > On Aug 11, 2015, at 12:49 PM, Sean Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > So what do people think of David Brin's "transparent society"
> > approach to this problem? We can't completely stop ourselves from
> > being watched, but we can make use of all this technology
> > ourselves. Police have ALPRs and dashcams and bodycams, but by and
> > large they have actually resisted expansions of their own
> > surveillance because they want the flexibility to be able to make
> > up justifications after the fact. Phone cams have for the most part
> > taken that choice away from them. The result seems likely to be
> > less police abuse than at any point since at least the early 20th
> > century in the US.
> >
> > Even Snowden's leaks were enabled by very similar technologies to
> > what the NSA deploys against us.
> >
> > Is there any reason to believe that, overall, technology will
> > benefit governments more than it does individuals?
>