Big Brother in the UK
Is this kind of thinking what we’re in store for in the United States? I hope people are a little more protective of their privacy and less supportive of invasive governmental/police practices, but I don’t have a lot of hope. The idea that there are hidden cameras (which the police refuse to identify) snapping tens of thousands of pictures a day of people’s license plates and/or the people in the car, and that the data is being stored for a year or longer, and that it’s searchable and is used to track movements/behavior for part of some nebulous notion of “crime prevention”…and that people aren’t rioting about this kind of behavior…oy. It hurts me to think that people are actually OK with this. Oy!
