Microphone-enabled surveillance systems are being installed on public buses in San Francisco, Baltimore, and other several other cities at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security.
They're being put there to eavesdrop on passenger's private conversations. While transit officials say the recording devices are to keep passengers safe and resolve disputes, privacy experts disagree and point out numerous civil liberties violations – the first being surveillance without a warrant. There's also concern that the audio recording devices can be pared with facial recognition software to immediately identify who's talking as well. The growth of the surveillance security state in America should trouble us all – and has our nation's earliest privacy advocates, like Benjamin Franklin, rolling in their graves.
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I thought you couldn't be audio-recorded without your written permission?
ReplyDeleteMany public places post that you are being video-recorded, and that is legal, but not for audio-recordings.
WELCOME TO THE MACHINE
ReplyDeleteLet me quote Solzhenitsyn...
ReplyDelete"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
It is coming. get ready.
BRAVO 2:53!!! YOU ARE A MAN AMONG MICE!! and you are welcome at my campfire always.
ReplyDeleteI do fell better withs words of warning from people who have lived under tryrany with no means of defense other then pickforks...and i am further getting a warm n fuzzy from my fellow patriots posting here , who do see whats happening and now i know that i will not stand alone.
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