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What if you found out the Government was monitoring everyone...

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DCal430

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What if tomorrow it was revealed that the Government would be launching powerful satellites that would record every square feet populated land with with fine resolution of up to 1 square inch. Each second, every inch of land would be recording. The government would see when you left your house, where the car went, anything a satellite could see, the government would see. This would be done in the name of public safety.

1. Would you be for or against this?

2. Would you feel more or less safe with this technology?
 
Sort of like living on the border is now. You can't piss in the woods w/o some BP camera filming your mantool.
 
DCal430 said:
What if tomorrow it was revealed that the Government would be launching powerful satellites that would record every square feet populated land with with fine resolution of up to 1 square inch. Each second, every inch of land would be recording. The government would see when you left your house, where the car went, anything a satellite could see, the government would see. This would be done in the name of public safety.

1. Would you be for or against this?

2. Would you feel more or less safe with this technology?
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I haven't been outside in three years for this reason, I don't want the government to see me. I'm pretty sure they are trying to install cameras in my house. I might have to move to a cave pretty soon.
 
If they were monitoring everyone, I would be happy because they would have to employ so many people to do that, unemployment would be eliminated.
 
lxskllr said:
Yup, it's a done deal. Not a peep about it from anyone though. Hard to compete with important events like Jersey Shore :^S
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You mean the NSA new data facility. Scary they could be build this, with so little being told to the public of its purpose.
 
Fritzo said:
they would have to employ so many people to do that, unemployment would be eliminated.
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No they wouldn't. Computers do most of the work, and they conscript civilians to help them do their surveillance. That's why I bitch about digital security, and privacy...

Nobody gives a shit about their rights anymore. They're too busy playing Farmville, and drooling on their keyboards.
 
Fritzo said:
If they were monitoring everyone, I would be happy because they would have to employ so many people to do that, unemployment would be eliminated.
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That's why it really doesn't get TOO much attention, outside of the most vocal detractors.

Yes, I hate that they do it; yes, opine I will.

But, they will never have the funding to employ the necessary "task force" to investigate what every single layperson does when they are bored or otherwise about their daily routines.

What remains to be seen, is the level of sophistication of the algorithms they will certainly employ. That is the only frightening thing: how many false-positives will be tripped by our ridiculous google and wiki queries, and what it will take to take ourselves from "layman who can be ignored" to "what exactly is this person doing? any intent?" It's at that point that one suddenly becomes targeted and tracked, with someone paying close attention to every little tidbit that flows into their servers.

I don't like the concept one bit, regardless - but the digital age is unprecedented and nobody really knows just what the hell we really need to do.
Sadly, I really don't see it getting anything but worse - no matter our opinions on this matter. 🙁
 
Google Earth?

There is already a trend where every piece of information about an individual is put into a database and stored, whether it's economic activity, internet history, cell phone conversations, travel history, GPS location data, et. al. Increasingly, these individual databases, whether government run or private, are being consolidated into large, singular databases. All of this large-scale techno Big Brother government surveillance is to protect you from the terrorists, of course.

The internet is essentially a crude mind-reading device, considering how easy it is to gather and consolidate the information from personal users that goes into it.
 
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They already are... its called Facebook... Facebook has a backdoor for CIA and Government... it didn't get so popular and fast for "your own enjoyment."
 
destrekor said:
What remains to be seen, is the level of sophistication of the algorithms they will certainly employ. That is the only frightening thing: how many false-positives will be tripped by our ridiculous google and wiki queries, and what it will take to take ourselves from "layman who can be ignored" to "what exactly is this person doing? any intent?" It's at that point that one suddenly becomes targeted and tracked, with someone paying close attention to every little tidbit that flows into their servers.
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http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/19/debunking-the-dangerous-nothing-to-hide-nothing-to-fear/
 
What do you mean "if"? They've always had and now they're building a data center (or maybe it's already built) to store even more data.

Post something anti America or anti government on twitter, then try to go on a plane.
 
I think I would pass out a bunch of flyers about the benefits of nude sunbathing in a bunch of retirement homes and old neighborhoods.
 
DCal430 said:
What if you found out the Government was monitoring everyone...

What if tomorrow it was revealed that the Government would be launching powerful satellites that would record every square feet populated land with with fine resolution of up to 1 square inch. Each second, every inch of land would be recording. The government would see when you left your house, where the car went, anything a satellite could see, the government would see. This would be done in the name of public safety.

1. Would you be for or against this?

2. Would you feel more or less safe with this technology?
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People like the OP need to be tracked
 
Red Squirrel said:
What do you mean "if"? They've always had and now they're building a data center (or maybe it's already built) to store even more data.

Post something anti America or anti government on twitter, then try to go on a plane.
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Believe it or not, if you go on too many conspiracy theory websites, wacky shit starts happening.
 
lxskllr said:
No they wouldn't. Computers do most of the work, and they conscript civilians to help them do their surveillance. That's why I bitch about digital security, and privacy...

Nobody gives a shit about their rights anymore. They're too busy playing Farmville, and drooling on their keyboards.
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As I work in a related IT field, I have an idea of how that would work, and you have no idea how much raw data that would involve. Say the gov't was monitoring everyone...there would be so much junk that the data collection would be useless. Now, having the ability to monitor ANYONE is different. That way resources could be focused on a certain target for a certain reason. That is a much more likely scenario.
 
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