Big Brother Is Here!!

[+ Gar1eth]

Opinion | What You Need to Know About Police Surveillance - The New York Times

WWW.NYTIMES.COM

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New tools allow law enforcement agencies to track us at an unimaginable scale.

 

[jeezifonly]

Someone once said "never do anything you wouldn't want depicted and described on the front page of the New York Times" 

I guess we simply expand that with "or in a federal indictment"

 

[+ sync]

Present day technology appears to be channeling the idiom of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

[+ friendofsheila]

On 9/20/2025 at 10:08 PM, jeezifonly said:

Someone once said "never do anything you wouldn't want depicted and described on the front page of the New York Times" 

I guess we simply expand that with "or in a federal indictment"

 

and maybe never email anything that you would not want someone tot forward to everyone on their email list accccidentally.

[+ PhileasFogg]

I have a friend who visited a very large city of 18 million few of us would have ever heard of.  Cameras everywhere!  No crime, no speeding, etc.  Apparently, when crimes occur, time to apprehension is measured in minutes/hours rather than days/weeks.

I have mixed emotions because I see the benefit, but I also know such coverage offers opportunity for abuse. 

Edited 2 hours ago by PhileasFogg

[mike carey]

1 hour ago, PhileasFogg said:

I have a friend who visited a very large city of 18 million few of us would have ever heard of.  Cameras everywhere!  No crime, no speeding, etc.  Apparently, when crimes occur, time to apprehension is measured in minutes/hours rather than days/weeks.

I have mixed emotions because I see the benefit, but I also know such coverage offers opportunity for abuse. 

Somewhere like Chengdu?