Just because i'm in a public area doens't give the city or any government the right to monitor my every move.
It doesn't have anything to do with doing things that are private. It has to do with my basic right to freedom.
You are being introduced to the control grid.
There a thousands upon thousands of cameras in London. Nobody notices them anymore. Is this a good thing?
Why wouldn't these cameras lead to other things such as facial recgonition technology? Is that a good thing? Cameras scanning every person looking for the bad guys?
Next to be implemented: National ID cards. Lets implement those so wherever you go, you have to use it to gain access to a building. Therefore, you have to have a background check to get one and check out ok, criminals, terrorists etc will have a tough time with that.
Then lets implement microchip tracking. This way, we don't need cameras at all. We'll just chip everyone and we can track everyone with GPS and a computer. We'll know exactly where everyone goes 24 hours a day. Pay with your chip, do everything with your chip.
Extreme examples? Perhaps, but if you think the introduction of cameras to monitor people stops there, I have to ask, why would it?
What about x rays? Would people be adverse to that? We put xray devices on light poles to scan people to see if their carrying weapons.
It's all the same to me and I see cameras as the first step towards a worse tomorrow, but maybe thats just me.
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