On 7 Nov 2006 at 13:27, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Andrew Crystall wrote: > > > > And as ever it COMPLETELY misses the point. Yes, public areas are > > covered with cameras. Private areas are not. There is the Human > > rights act, and a right to privacy. > > > I was in London last week. British newspapers were classifying > home surveillance as "equivalent" to that of Russia and China.
Which is absolute and total rubbish. It just makes a good story that a study which only looks at possible policies, not the controls on them, had come up with. > As He wrote, the best quality of science fiction is portraying > such a horrible future that people will fight to prevent it. > 1984 still resonates in Airstrip One. You're trying to put the genie back into the bottle. I think you might want to consider what the Brin had to say about doing that with surveylance tech. AndrewC Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
