Eight Things That They Are Using in the Surveillance Industry to Watch Us

[SeaBreeze]

Check out some of the ways they watch us, there are of course many more...http://www.oddee.com/item_98935.aspx :jumelles:

 

[SifuPhil]

Yet more reasons to stay huddled up indoors with no electronic toys ...

 

[SeaBreeze]

I heard on the radio that some guy was knocking on women's doors, telling them he could fix computers and make them faster. These gals let him in to clean up their PCs, and he ended up installing a spy camera to watch them in their homes.

 

[SifuPhil]

I heard on the radio that some guy was knocking on women's doors, telling them he could fix computers and make them faster. These gals let him in to clean up their PCs, and he ended up installing a spy camera to watch them in their homes.

That dog! That dirty scoundrel!

... that was MY idea!

 

[Ralphy1]

"Smile! You are on Candid Camera!" Anybody remember that one?

 

[Elyzabeth]

I really have no problems with any of this..

it is used , for the most part , to keep us safe from terrorists...

and I have nothing to hide, I'm totally honest!

 

[SifuPhil]

... and I have nothing to hide, I'm totally honest!

So do you have curtains? Can I see your credit card bills for the last year?

I don't have anything to hide, but I don't feel the need to show anyone anything either.

It isn't about having anything to hide - it's about things not being other people's business.

As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once declared, "Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is."

Data that is collected from you can be easily distorted by the government. It can be totally withheld from you, as in Kafka's The Trial. Or it can just be another case of Big Brother exerting influence over your life as in Orwell's 1984.

Privacy goes far beyond mere innocence or guilt - it delves into the depths of our human rights.

 

[Jackie22]

I really have no problems with any of this..

it is used , for the most part , to keep us safe from terrorists...

and I have nothing to hide, I'm totally honest!

........same here.

 

[Sid]

It seems to me what they are talking about is equivalent to watching you in your home while you pee. I can't imagine anyone being OK with that.

 

[SifuPhil]

It seems to me what they are talking about is equivalent to watching you in your home while you pee. I can't imagine anyone being OK with that.

Americans have become so used to having their freedoms compromised that I think they would be OK with it after a very short period of moaning. Their biggest complaint would probably be to make the cameras match the bathroom decor.