I saw an ad for Progressive car insurance. It featured a tracking device for your car that presumably will help you get better rates for safer driving (and location?) Its users will drive safer and slower because they want to keep their rates low. The tracking device has a pacifying effect.
In Boston we saw how fast the bombers were identified by cameras and quickly tracked down. I don't think anyone's going to try that again (like that anyway). So here they worked, but is all the other surveillance worth the rare times its really needed like this?
I do a happy dance by spinning my wheelchair when I see my honey after not having seen him in a while. The last time I did that I looked up and saw that we were in sight of two cameras, although otherwise no one noticed. I realized it might look like weird/crazy behavior to someone tasked with protection. Before I would do that again I might check for cameras.
Do cameras and tracking devices have a pacifying effect on society? Is that good? Is it Orwellian?
Edit: I wouldn't act silly in front of someone wearing Google Glass.
In Boston we saw how fast the bombers were identified by cameras and quickly tracked down. I don't think anyone's going to try that again (like that anyway). So here they worked, but is all the other surveillance worth the rare times its really needed like this?
I do a happy dance by spinning my wheelchair when I see my honey after not having seen him in a while. The last time I did that I looked up and saw that we were in sight of two cameras, although otherwise no one noticed. I realized it might look like weird/crazy behavior to someone tasked with protection. Before I would do that again I might check for cameras.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...a174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story_3.htmlThe most powerful FBI surveillance software can covertly download files, photographs and stored e-mails, or even gather real-time images by activating cameras connected to computers, say court documents and people familiar with this technology.
Do cameras and tracking devices have a pacifying effect on society? Is that good? Is it Orwellian?
Edit: I wouldn't act silly in front of someone wearing Google Glass.
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