Most of the 350 million of us are simply "noise," not worth the attention. Yeah, all sorts of data may be collected, but after a while, data storage is expensive and you either have to limit the scope of the surveillance or the length of its shelf life. I'm sure my plate has been read at various times unknown to me. So what? It's no different than a motorcycle cop with binoculars.
If the government wants you, they will go after you, surveillance or no surveillance. But if they can better capture felons, I'm good with that. I don't understand your paranoia, unless you plan criminal activity.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin
Privacy is a right we have as Americans.
Let's just park that motorcycle cop with binoculars at the end of the street, looking at your house. He can also just follow you around daily, logging every place you visited, how long, cross reference it with other databases on your purchases.
He can put it all in a big file down at the precinct anyone can look at. Maybe I can even get your file through a FOIA request.
I mean what's the harm, unless you plan criminal activity?
And it's all perfectly legal. That's what private detectives are hired to do, and you have no right to interfere with or curtail their equal freedom of the public ways. You have no right to "privacy" in public. I don't know there is any harm. Perhaps you can show a court why this is wrong and a violation of our laws and rights. I wish you all success. That would be going uphill against 300 years of legal precedent.
You've equated a PI to the government; which non-tards know is unequivocal. It’s clear you’re simply too old to understand the state of technology these days, and the threat it becomes in the hands of Government. I leave you to your Ensure and texting your grandkids to help with your router.
No, I've pointed out that government surveillance is no different than that of a private investigator. Entirely legal and not violative of any Constitutional rights. I've spent 40 years in aerospace engineering, so I am quite aware of present capabilities...which are still not up to the fantasies being projected about them. You might read Solzhenitsyn's 1968 "The First Circle" to see how it worked in earlier times.
Look, you are assuming a threat you can't even verbalize. It reminds me of when I was young and was afraid of the dark. Not that I KNEW there was any threat, but because I imagined WHAT IF there was a threat. My "grow up" moment came when I realized I should not fear Nothing. Unless you are planning to break the law (which you don't entirely deny), anything the government might come after you for would have been in the public realm anyway. (Those 40 years also involved working in highly classified environments and a great deal of government scrutiny. Can you match that?)
But I see that you are more interested in disparaging my age than clarifying your position, so you are welcome to it.
Most of the 350 million of us are simply "noise," not worth the attention. Yeah, all sorts of data may be collected, but after a while, data storage is expensive and you either have to limit the scope of the surveillance or the length of its shelf life. I'm sure my plate has been read at various times unknown to me. So what? It's no different than a motorcycle cop with binoculars.
If the government wants you, they will go after you, surveillance or no surveillance. But if they can better capture felons, I'm good with that. I don't understand your paranoia, unless you plan criminal activity.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin
Privacy is a right we have as Americans.
Let's just park that motorcycle cop with binoculars at the end of the street, looking at your house. He can also just follow you around daily, logging every place you visited, how long, cross reference it with other databases on your purchases.
He can put it all in a big file down at the precinct anyone can look at. Maybe I can even get your file through a FOIA request.
I mean what's the harm, unless you plan criminal activity?
And it's all perfectly legal. That's what private detectives are hired to do, and you have no right to interfere with or curtail their equal freedom of the public ways. You have no right to "privacy" in public. I don't know there is any harm. Perhaps you can show a court why this is wrong and a violation of our laws and rights. I wish you all success. That would be going uphill against 300 years of legal precedent.
Comms off.
You've equated a PI to the government; which non-tards know is unequivocal. It’s clear you’re simply too old to understand the state of technology these days, and the threat it becomes in the hands of Government. I leave you to your Ensure and texting your grandkids to help with your router.
No, I've pointed out that government surveillance is no different than that of a private investigator. Entirely legal and not violative of any Constitutional rights. I've spent 40 years in aerospace engineering, so I am quite aware of present capabilities...which are still not up to the fantasies being projected about them. You might read Solzhenitsyn's 1968 "The First Circle" to see how it worked in earlier times.
Look, you are assuming a threat you can't even verbalize. It reminds me of when I was young and was afraid of the dark. Not that I KNEW there was any threat, but because I imagined WHAT IF there was a threat. My "grow up" moment came when I realized I should not fear Nothing. Unless you are planning to break the law (which you don't entirely deny), anything the government might come after you for would have been in the public realm anyway. (Those 40 years also involved working in highly classified environments and a great deal of government scrutiny. Can you match that?)
But I see that you are more interested in disparaging my age than clarifying your position, so you are welcome to it.