2010/08/13

NYTimes.com - Judges Divided Over Growing GPS Surveillance
The New York Times reports: "The GPS tracking dispute coincides with a burst of other technological tools that expand police monitoring abilities — including automated license-plate readers in squad cars, speed cameras mounted on streetlight poles, and even the widely discussed prospect of linking face-recognition computer programs to the proliferating number of surveillance cameras."

Comment: Those who are the defenders of a free society must be very careful now in establishing the rules and precedents that will be followed for years to come. Technology is either now at the point or very near the point of giving governments and corporations the ability to monitor people in real-time in both public and private spaces. What are the rules, what protections from abuse (the checks and balances) will be built into this system, and what recourse do citizens have?

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