http://www.physorg.com/news105976546.html

So, are we saying here that we need to be paranoid about data collected that shows where we were at a given time? Then, perhaps we need to reconsider any actions that we would not want to make an accounting for. If you"re not guilty of anything, what difference if you"re on record?

Who was it who said something to the effect that only 'those of you with a clean conscience shall throw the first stone'

And why should such a statement mean something for so long :)
The only thing innocent i know of are babies. And they don't throw stones ::))

This is just another piece of Orwellian future. I personally resent the idea that my movements are recorded for whatever reason.

stupid bob barr



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What I find bothersome with the proliferation of cameras and devices like that mentioned in the article is not so much that they make it more difficult to be anonymous, as I have little to hide... today. In the future where the world's moral compass and direction is becoming less clear by the day, a post I had made, a direction I chose to take, a building I was caught on video coming out of may associate me with criminal behavior as determined by a new world order.

This is an example of technology which could be used to protect society instead being used to breach privacy and, in the process, break up a few marriages which, perhaps, needed breaking up. (If not, why did the spouses go looking for the evidence?)

Moralising puritans will, of course, be cheering at this new means of controlling the population. And they'll go on cheering until they find that they're the ones being controlled. By which time it will, naturally, be far far too late...

Privacy activists, on the other hand, will deplore this obvious nannyism and advise people who want to protect their privacy shouldn't use electronic toll systems - which throws the baby out with the bath water.

It is this technology - and other similar "location beacons" dotted around the landscape which will - used properly - allow us to bring a whole new approach to crime detection and prevention. I've tried to explain how here

But none of that would be possible unless we have GUARANTEED PRIVACY meaning specifically that NO-ONE can do the kind of thing we read about in this article. If you want the world and his dog, not to mention authoritarian governments, commercial spies, busybodies and opportunistic burglars (who just want to know that you're not at home) to be able to track you from cradle to grave, then sit on your hands; become part of the problem; do nothing and watch the world close in on you.

Alternatively you could help trying to find the solution and spread the word. There is a way out of this maze and if we collaborate, we'll find it.