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Re: Privacy news: Oakland Cameras, Levi employee files, FileGate
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In <[email protected]>, on
05/01/97 at 12:31 PM,
Paul Bradley <[email protected]> said:
>> Bay Alarm said that some British cities have dealt with privacy fears by
>> setting up monitoring centers away from city and police offices,
>> where tapes are kept in case a crime occurs -- crime victims can call up
>> the police and ask them to play back tapes, said Mark Demier of Bay Alarm.
>> The camera systems are also capable of taking pictures in the dark.
>Not just cities, quite small towns and residential areas have now taken
>to using citizen-units tax money installing systems to spy on the very
>same people. I have now taken to not visiting a town near me (Hastings)
>because of the CCTV systems in place. Not content with spying on citizens
>going about their business in towns a number of state funded colleges and
>universities are now installing CCTV systems. Presumably audio "bugs"
>will also be in order to ensure the student-units do not say anything
>unseemly or hinting at some form of intellectual heresy.
>Also, a number of car alarm manufacturers are now producing systems to
>track cars using GPS so if the car is stolen the police can track its
>movements. I can quite easily envisage a situation in a few years time
>when it is mandated that all new cars produced must be fitted with such
>systems so that the government can track the movement of citizens.
>One cannot now go out of ones own house without being monitored, and for
>those of us who are known heretics maybe even that is not true.
Well I invision that in 20-30 years all TV's will be two-way (ala 1984) and
any LEA will be able to monitor the activities of the serfs a the push of a
button.
The infrastructure for this is currently being built. With the merging of
technologies: cable, INet, TV, Phone, & Computer all that will be needed is
the adding of a mic and video camera which will more then likely be
standard features of the computer/communication/entertainment equipment.
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