At 11:52 PM 2/11/00 -0500, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
>And as most of us already know, most every London intersection and
>most major destinations are already under camera surveillance.
>Society is going to change with these technologies. Privacy and
>anonymity can no longer be taken for granted. The choice is do we
>let an elite or various governmental police state agencies only have
>access or do we have an open society and open the camera networks to
>the public at large? I say open.
>
Anyone interested in this topic should read Peter Huber's book "Orwells
Revenge". Unfortunately, his site seems to have been dropped down the
memory hole. :) Fortunately, I have the PDF of the book he posted to his
site. Unfortunately, it's 700+k and I'm not sending it to a mailing list --
I like my life. If anyone wants to volunteer to host it, I will send it to
them. Since Huber posted it free for download, I can't imagine he'd object
to it being distributed more widely -- at least not if he believes what he
wrote in it. (Think of the estate of Abby Hoffman suing over someone
posting a scan of 'Steal This Book!')
