North Korea has a better closed circuit TV system. Maybe Chicago should go there for pointers. Every house is required to have a CCTV receiver so they can get the most important updated info directly from the government thus avoiding any private media “filtering”. I think it would be fashionable for every home to have one.
Listening on cell phone conversations, looking at listings of who you called, viewing the internet sites you visited or the books, magazines and music you purchased for your iPad or Kindle – recording your every move on camera. I guess it doesn’t bother people that we have lost all privacy in exchange for security – we have become the Eloi waiting for the Morlocks to descend.
Actually, I still think the question is apt. The Morlocks and Eloi are two cultures featured in the Herbert George Wells novel, titled “The Time Traveler,” whereas George Orwell penned the awesomeness that is “1984.”
Don’t get me wrong, I think original commenter hit the nail on the head with the Orwell/1984 connection. I just think the original point lost some impact with the sudden detour through 803,000 A.D.
In any case, the whole Big Brother implication leaves me feeling doubleplusungood.
privacy only extends in your home only. it does not matter where you walk or drive anyone at anytime can take a photo of you. if you have ever watched csi, you notice they always try to find use of local cameras, including ATM’s. you step out your door, your in the public eye, no privacy there. if you have a cellphone or a non-dedicated landline, any conversation can be heard without a wiretap authorization. problem, is that folks want this covered when it comes to court. many folks don’t realize that many paperwork is a matter of public record as well. why do you think many insurance companies can get driver’s licenses, vin’s and many other pieces of information. our society after 911, is not worried so much as before. we still want things to be private but not gossipped about.
I agree that people out in the public view have no reasonable expectation of privacy, but I can’t abide the argument that law-abiding citizens don’t need privacy so long as they’re doing nothing wrong.
I have details of my life that are nobody else’s business, and I’m sure the case is the same for everyone else. This not mean I’m a criminal or evil person, it just means I like to keep private matters between me and my family, and I respect other people’s right to do the same insofar as it doesn’t transgress laws of the land. That’s why we have HIPAA and a full wealth of other laws that protect our privacy.
Again, if it’s in the bounds of the public domain, I have no issue with the cameras. But please don’t invoke mindless arguments claiming that law-abiding people have nothing to hide because everyone has something they’d prefer to keep to themselves and loved ones.
Would you be as open with your comments or even make them if this site published your actual name or that you could be tracked down if someone doesn’t like what you’ve said, places you visit or read or the activities you are involved in? It is not how the information is used or protected today under a democracy it is how it will be used tomorrow when fascists, socialists or a religious group etc takes over. You don’t live in the real world if you think China is not using technology and information sources to track down political descent. Did you know one of the largest information providers in the US insurance industry – Lexis Nexis is not owned by a US company? Somehow that bothers me.
does the city still have such an intractable gang problem?
North Korea has a better closed circuit TV system. Maybe Chicago should go there for pointers. Every house is required to have a CCTV receiver so they can get the most important updated info directly from the government thus avoiding any private media “filtering”. I think it would be fashionable for every home to have one.
Listening on cell phone conversations, looking at listings of who you called, viewing the internet sites you visited or the books, magazines and music you purchased for your iPad or Kindle – recording your every move on camera. I guess it doesn’t bother people that we have lost all privacy in exchange for security – we have become the Eloi waiting for the Morlocks to descend.
Why are you going by the moniker “Orwell” while referencing H.G. Wells?
Better check your authors.
Actually, I still think the question is apt. The Morlocks and Eloi are two cultures featured in the Herbert George Wells novel, titled “The Time Traveler,” whereas George Orwell penned the awesomeness that is “1984.”
Don’t get me wrong, I think original commenter hit the nail on the head with the Orwell/1984 connection. I just think the original point lost some impact with the sudden detour through 803,000 A.D.
In any case, the whole Big Brother implication leaves me feeling doubleplusungood.
privacy only extends in your home only. it does not matter where you walk or drive anyone at anytime can take a photo of you. if you have ever watched csi, you notice they always try to find use of local cameras, including ATM’s. you step out your door, your in the public eye, no privacy there. if you have a cellphone or a non-dedicated landline, any conversation can be heard without a wiretap authorization. problem, is that folks want this covered when it comes to court. many folks don’t realize that many paperwork is a matter of public record as well. why do you think many insurance companies can get driver’s licenses, vin’s and many other pieces of information. our society after 911, is not worried so much as before. we still want things to be private but not gossipped about.
And at the end of the day, if you have nothing to hide then who cares if big brother is watching.
exactly, i always say if you didn’t do anything wrong then what are you worried about!!!
Here’s something for the politicians to read: Kiss my Behind!!
I agree that people out in the public view have no reasonable expectation of privacy, but I can’t abide the argument that law-abiding citizens don’t need privacy so long as they’re doing nothing wrong.
I have details of my life that are nobody else’s business, and I’m sure the case is the same for everyone else. This not mean I’m a criminal or evil person, it just means I like to keep private matters between me and my family, and I respect other people’s right to do the same insofar as it doesn’t transgress laws of the land. That’s why we have HIPAA and a full wealth of other laws that protect our privacy.
Again, if it’s in the bounds of the public domain, I have no issue with the cameras. But please don’t invoke mindless arguments claiming that law-abiding people have nothing to hide because everyone has something they’d prefer to keep to themselves and loved ones.
Would you be as open with your comments or even make them if this site published your actual name or that you could be tracked down if someone doesn’t like what you’ve said, places you visit or read or the activities you are involved in? It is not how the information is used or protected today under a democracy it is how it will be used tomorrow when fascists, socialists or a religious group etc takes over. You don’t live in the real world if you think China is not using technology and information sources to track down political descent. Did you know one of the largest information providers in the US insurance industry – Lexis Nexis is not owned by a US company? Somehow that bothers me.