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PrintableXxAxX said: i guess i'm old school. the fact that anyone anywhere can capture my image and use it however they like bugs me. the idea that implanted tracking chips, for personal and medical reasons, are being urged on citizens as a 'good idea' bugs me. it bugs me that newer clothing items are sold complete with scan-able strips. i don't want to live in a world that can scan me when i walk by and instantly obtain my medical and personal data and shopping preferences
i think this world is coming though. [Edited 3/16/06 6:41am] George Orwell  | |
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LleeLlee said: XxAxX said: i guess i'm old school. the fact that anyone anywhere can capture my image and use it however they like bugs me. the idea that implanted tracking chips, for personal and medical reasons, are being urged on citizens as a 'good idea' bugs me. it bugs me that newer clothing items are sold complete with scan-able strips. i don't want to live in a world that can scan me when i walk by and instantly obtain my medical and personal data and shopping preferences
i think this world is coming though. [Edited 3/16/06 6:41am] George Orwell yep.  arguments in favor of monitoring citizens' private life are many. implanted medical chips help access treatment records in cases where a victim is unconscious but has allergies or a rare blood type... implanted data chips capable of tracking sex offenders and knowing if they're nearing a schoolyard... etc.
but still it all makes me uneasy. interestingly, the city of minneapolis has halted a 'traffic cop camera' program that was eventually quite successful in reducing the number of accidents caused by those who ran red lights. once folks became aware that their transgressions were recorded the number of offenses dropped amazingly. i guess there are arguments to be made on both sides. do you suppose eventually we will all be reduced to wearing 'privacy cloaks' when we venture outside? masks and shielding capes?  | |
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XxAxX said: LleeLlee said: George Orwell yep. arguments in favor of monitoring citizens' private life are many. implanted medical chips help access treatment records in cases where a victim is unconscious but has allergies or a rare blood type... implanted data chips capable of tracking sex offenders and knowing if they're nearing a schoolyard... etc.
but still it all makes me uneasy. interestingly, the city of minneapolis has halted a 'traffic cop camera' program that was eventually quite successful in reducing the number of accidents caused by those who ran red lights. once folks became aware that their transgressions were recorded the number of offenses dropped amazingly. i guess there are arguments to be made on both sides. do you suppose eventually we will all be reduced to wearing 'privacy cloaks' when we venture outside? masks and shielding capes? probably, and comedy moustaches. I quite fancy wearing a cloak, a long black one i can swish about randomly. I dont think a citizens private life should be monitored, but I think we have the right to information reported in an accurate and factual manner and if that means the public at large having a hand in it then so be it. Maybe people are not as suspicious of ordinairy citizens as they can be of journalists and the news media in general? Somehow it adds a sense of realism to an event when a member of the public and eye witness records an event, maybe. You dont get that spin that journalists can put on a story. I trust the BBC as a news source though and one or two others, but not many. ... [Edited 3/16/06 7:56am] | |
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LleeLlee said: XxAxX said: yep. arguments in favor of monitoring citizens' private life are many. implanted medical chips help access treatment records in cases where a victim is unconscious but has allergies or a rare blood type... implanted data chips capable of tracking sex offenders and knowing if they're nearing a schoolyard... etc.
but still it all makes me uneasy. interestingly, the city of minneapolis has halted a 'traffic cop camera' program that was eventually quite successful in reducing the number of accidents caused by those who ran red lights. once folks became aware that their transgressions were recorded the number of offenses dropped amazingly. i guess there are arguments to be made on both sides. do you suppose eventually we will all be reduced to wearing 'privacy cloaks' when we venture outside? masks and shielding capes? probably, and comedy moustaches. I quite fancy wearing a cloak, a long black one i can swish about randomly. I dont think a citizens private life should be monitored, but I think we have the right to information reported in an accurate and factual manner and if that means the public at large having a hand in it then so be it. Maybe people are not as suspicious of ordinairy citizens as they can be of journalists and the news media in general? Somehow it adds a sense of realism to an event when a member of the public and eye witness records an event, maybe. You dont get that spin that journalists can put on a story. I trust the BBC as a news source though and one or two others, but not many. ... [Edited 3/16/06 7:56am] me too. and a swordcane for poking at intrusive journalists and their cam-phones.
i suppose as this technology develops so will there be jamming devices that can erase data on other people's phones. i suspect by the time we're old ladies things will be radically different. | |
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XxAxX said: LleeLlee said: probably, and comedy moustaches. I quite fancy wearing a cloak, a long black one i can swish about randomly. I dont think a citizens private life should be monitored, but I think we have the right to information reported in an accurate and factual manner and if that means the public at large having a hand in it then so be it. Maybe people are not as suspicious of ordinairy citizens as they can be of journalists and the news media in general? Somehow it adds a sense of realism to an event when a member of the public and eye witness records an event, maybe. You dont get that spin that journalists can put on a story. I trust the BBC as a news source though and one or two others, but not many. ... [Edited 3/16/06 7:56am] me too. and a swordcane for poking at intrusive journalists and their cam-phones.
i suppose as this technology develops so will there be jamming devices that can erase data on other people's phones. i suspect by the time we're old ladies things will be radically different. you can search anothers persons phone using Bluetooth! 
we were sending and receiving songs between our phones and I could look through the files on their phone and they could look through mine, always turn it off just in case. ... [Edited 3/16/06 8:21am] | |
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CarrieMpls said: I should state, I can take videos too.
But I don't.  bummer
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