Big Brother Is Here: America the not so free

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Big Brother Is Here: America the not so free

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The pieces come together. Within the last week I have read:

1) New software, associated with Google, will recognize customers in stores so as to offer them discounts; having your photos uploaded to allow this service will (for now) be voluntary.

2) A new surveillance system in New York will store footage from cameras in, for example, the subway, so that when an unattended package is discovered, the police can look back in time to see who left it.


3) TSA is perfecting a laser that will allow detection on travelers of trace amounts of drugs, explosives, and doubtless a wide variety of other things.

4) The government is moving toward mandating black boxes on cars to record information thought to be useful in ascribing blame in crashes.

5) Various police departments are beginning to use “drone”? aircraft to monitor the population.

These are recent pieces of the coming world. They have not yet all been completely deployed and linked. Some are voluntary, for the moment. Others are in development. All are coming.

Add the now-routine tracking of passports, cameras that read every passing license plate and record the time, NSA’s automated monitoring of email, Google’s and therefore the government’s knowledge of your searches, GPS tracking of cell phones, detailed records of bank transactions, and so on. Not all of these are instantly accessible by the police. They can easily be made accessible, and they move in that direction.
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Re: Big Brother Is Here: America the not so free

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I just read Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez, which I found recommended on Global Guerrillas, it's a novel though.  The premise is in line with the BB theme: they equip drones with face recognition software and such so that they are autonomous, instead of human controlled.  A bit like Michael Crichton's Prey, but the thing is, it either IS possible now, or will be possible shortly, to do all of that.
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