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DronePuppet•

Wild that no one really cares about this.

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Torgo234•

I don't really care about this, AMA.

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8milestyle•

What kind of shit do you care for?

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Torgo234•

War, the economy, whether or not Ben Affleck will make a good Batman... The usual stuff. I just don't find the idea that "people have a right to privacy while in public" to be very compelling.

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escalation•

How do you feel about the right to privacy while in private? At what point would you consider a person to be in private? How do you feel about monitoring electromagnetic emissions and usage of the power grid? Where do you draw the line?

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Ihatethedesert•

I'm sure this will really help stop, prevent, and track crimes. Much like the massive data collection with the NSA has helped prevent and reduce terrorist attacks.

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IroquoisPliskins•

Especially when it means sensitive information of government workers are at risk by chinese crackers.

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Torgo234•

Unlike the NSA data collection, proponents of this system can point to many specific crimes that were solved astonishingly quickly during the test periods. You can argue that the effect is not enough to justify the privacy intrusion, but you can't seriously argue that this system has no effect.

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Ihatethedesert•

That's only if they have an effective system to comb through the data. Creating a storage for enough of the data to be able to backtrack is another problem they'll have to solve. The NSA has taught us though that the government is absolutely shit at combing through data.

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Torgo234•

I must not have been clear. The system already works. It has already been used to solve crimes. The problems of data storage and usage that you point to have already been solved sufficiently that the system works as intended.

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Ihatethedesert•

You must not understand how this works. They haven't tested it on a massive scale. They've probably done some small things or a few big operations, but using it often would be difficult and require a lot of sorting through. This may help when a terrorist attacks happens, but it definitely wont be used for solving everyday cases. At least not for the time being. Sorry I wasn't clear enough about that in my first post. So yes it works, but it definitely wont be practical for everyday use. Most common criminals are still safe from this.

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theseeds•

No Speak Anonymously to be born in the Land of the Free, Doublespeak, To be what mandated education taught me to be.I am safe caged, therefore I am free.

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newoldwaveOP•

Big Brother is watching.

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IroquoisPliskins•

As far as I care they can be watching goatse.

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zerozulu•

Trying to control the masses by few maniacs will never work.

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Torgo234•

Can you describe for me where the "control" is in this? Who is making whom do what?

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