On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Greg Newby wrote: > In Brin's world, there would also be cameras in the DC police > departments for us to watch the watchers. More:
Shouldn't mention Brin, as his symmetry assumption (re quis custodiet) is never true, yet interpreted superficially is very much like public biometrics apology. Near-future high-quality biometrics extraction could be cheaply integrated into surveillance gear, and given ubiquitous wireless allow realtime database matching and data warehousing. Such capabilities are much too powerful to trust people with.
