Hello list, While this post is off-topic, it does seem to fall in somewhere with some of the discussions that do come up. Since Mike is a libertarian, I'm sure he can appreciate this as well.
Here is a short little story by an online rag written in Brittain. While they mainly write about Information Technology, they do cover some of the issues surrounding the subject as well, such as privacy issues. Their writers do an excellent job. Basically the story deals with police in Florida using cameras, along with face-recognition software, to scan the public at large. While this gives your constitutional rights a good stamping into the mud, they do this, of course, in the name of safety. Whether you are aware of it or not, at last year's Super Bowl, cameras were used, along with face-recognition software, to capture a photo of every last person who attended. Of course, this was all done to "prevent terrorist attacks", and the FBI gives their standard disclaimer that "none of the photos were saved for future reference". Yeah, right. Oh, and guess what? Some of this software is advanced enough to find you in a crowd, even if you are wearing a disguise that is good enough to fool your own mother. Could someone please tell me just when we forgot the fact that the rights guaranteed under the constitution are rights given by a power higher than that of mere men? At just what point in our modern-day complacency did we start thinking that these rights were actually granted by the government? Read the story, and associated links, at the URL below...... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20134.html You're not paranoid, Big Brother really IS watching! -- Best regards, Solar mailto:[email protected] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
