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Feel Like You're Being Watched? It's Because You Are
COMMENTARYMarch 11, 2012|By DAVID MCGUIRE, The Hartford Courant
Imagine a government that can track everyone, all the time, with license plate scanners, cellphone signals and networks of cameras mounted on buildings, traffic lights — even flying drones.
You don't have to imagine. Law enforcement agencies in the United States already use these technologies and are starting to collect, indiscriminately and on a massive scale, data on the movements and associations of innocent Americans. It's happening everywhere, including Connecticut.
As the surveillance state expands, it is rapidly developing the capacity to expose your whole life, the way an airport scanner exposes your body. The damage to privacy and constitutional protections is incalculable. The potential for abuse is staggering.
License plate scanners: Cameras on police cars capture license plates at up to 80 mph and feed them to computers that instantly identify unregistered or stolen vehicles. It's a useful law enforcement tool. But when the scans are compiled and held indefinitely, it creates a map of where your vehicle has been — at what church, mosque, synagogue, doctor's office, pub, motel, political rally or AA meeting.
Do we think this is a good thing, or as an abuse of our privacy?
Yes it's a useful law enforcement tool, But when the scans are compiled and held indefinitely, it creates a map of where your vehicle has been at what church, mosque, synagogue, doctor's office, pub, motel, political rally or AA meeting.look anything a cop could see if he or she was standing there is NOT private.
having a camera there in stead of a person doesnt make it any different except its cheaper than hiring a cop to stand on every corner.
Its just a picture and it cant kill you.
The problem is with the collection (and storage) of biometric data on citizens who've committed no crime.look anything a cop could see if he or she was standing there is NOT private.
having a camera there in stead of a person doesnt make it any different except its cheaper than hiring a cop to stand on every corner.
Its just a picture and it cant kill you.