> From: Trent Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > At this point, two weeks after the terrorist attacks, you have to ask > > yourself what is more important, freedom or security? Guess what, terrorist > > in the US at this very moment have the very same freedoms that we do. Are > > you willing to temporarily give up some of those freedoms to help ensure > > the safety of your family and children? If you are not, I think that I > > would be worried. > > Freedom is more important than security: full-stop.
Exactly. > There is no point in going to war to protect freedoms that have been > bargained away to stay cozy and secure. If you want to be safe just > capitulate. > > As for the ACLU: we live in a society with an adversarial court system. It > is not the role of the ACLU to be right (though often they are), it is their > job to make unpopular arguments. > > As for reason: In time of war some freedoms are always traded away for > security; but even in WWII be managed not to suspend the Bill of Rights. Our > current situation is not as serious as that in the 1940's ... at least not > yet. > > Face recognition software doesn't bother me though. I regard my personal > appearance as a publically accessible attribute. You are free to collect any > data you want in public. How you process it is your (possibly lucrative) > business. However, I would be a bit alarmed and annoyed if the NSA decided > to put digital cameras on every downtown public sidewalk. However, the local > police doing so would worry me less. Face Recongition is so poor that to catch 90% of suspected terrorists at airports, 33% of the people will have triggered an alarm. Face recognition is very orwellian. You can't go anywhere in england without being on some sort of closedcurcuit camera.
