Computers linked to cameras on squad cars are now being used on a limited basis to scan the license plates of the vehicles passing or being passed by the squad. A computer program then searchs the plate number to see if the vehicle is wanted. This has resulted in the recovery of many stolen vehicles and funding is paid for by auto insurers. The same computer program can be linked to cameras used for crime prevention mounted on street lights etc. Programers are also working on a detection program that will compare a persons facial features for the same reason, identify wanted persons or persons who commit a crime in view of cameras. It will become very very difficult for street criminals to commit crimes and escape. Do you think this is a good idea? Or is it too much of a loss of privacy? Courts already ruled on the street cameras that they were legal.
2006-07-18 07:51:18 · 12 answers · asked by frankie59 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
I look at it this way......It will not stop the crime all together. If you are out in public you loose your expectation of your privacy in certian ways. You are not intruded upon just by a camera watching you.
I also think if you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. They are there to protect you unless you are doing something wrong.
2006-07-18 15:43:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Privacy is now a myth. Modern technology like camera phones, security cameras, listening devices, etc. You can leave a single skin cell behind and be convicted. Your business can be snapped on a camera phone and on CNN in less the 30 seconds.
Scientists at Harvard recorded the brain waves of mice and rats as they ran through a maze. Later when the mice and rats were sleeping they recorded the brain waves again. They compared the brain waves and by that comparison they could tell that the mice and rats were reliving the maze run in their dreams. They could pin point exact points in the maze and when the cheese was found. They used this information to stimulate the pleasure center of the rats brain into falsely thinking it had cheese all the time and the rat starved to death.
So your dreams will one day no longer be safe.
Its the end of the age of privacy. Some think its how the "big brother" state finally takes over. Its all implemented as "increased security" but eventually it will be used on everyone.
Once government is given a specific power, they do not give them back. Never have, never will.
mike
2006-07-18 08:08:40 · answer #2 · answered by miketyson26 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a loss of privacy, but if your not doing anything you shouldn't have anything to worry about. This is also just another way we "sell" our freedoms for "safety". Everyone must realize this isn't and will never be a crime free utopian world. There are all sorts of street crimes that go on everyday and to think that they will stick a camera down every alley and street is very ridiculus. We have cops, maybe they should care about their career and not treat it like any old job.
2006-07-18 09:02:46 · answer #3 · answered by scrizzle247 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think a better solution would be to get rid of criminals. That way we all don't have to suffer loosing our privacy. How do we get rid of criminals you ask? We kill them. Nobody gets a second chance, 1 felony, and you meet your maker. Talk about a deterrant, you would have to be suicidal to even think of committing a crime. Too bad it will never happen. There are too many bleeding heats out there.
Take away the privacy of 100% of the population, or take away the life of the tiny fraction of 1% of the population that is criminals. I think it is an easy choice.
2006-07-18 08:03:28 · answer #4 · answered by Aegis of Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no privacy anywhere not in your home or in public. if someone is walking by your house and look thru your window when the blinds r opened you have opened your blinds to the public. if this good citenzen happens to see a tobacco pipe on the table and thinks it's wrong he can call the police and get a search warrant.in the public definetly there is no privacy.it's ashame when someone who is private and wants to remain private that they r guilty ofsomething or have something to hide because your not airing your dirty laundry. everyone wants to know everybody's bussiness instead of worrying about their own. that citizens and our government, too. what do these folks have to hide?
2006-07-18 19:18:48 · answer #5 · answered by nellie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, when you are out in public, you should not expect privacy. I am for anything that allows innocent, law-abiding people to be safer.
As for liberals who will cry the old, tired, "those willing to give up freedom for safety deserve neither" try to comprehend - if you are doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to lose. So please try to INTELLIGENTLY state what freedoms are lost just because a camera is present. (I know that will be a big challenge, but try to answer without insulting.)
2006-07-18 08:00:12 · answer #6 · answered by innocence faded 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We need this technology, and it is not a loss of privacy, it's not like we do antthing extremely revealing expect for the drug ealers who need to be caught
2006-07-18 07:59:10 · answer #7 · answered by Dawn M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought this was already implemented in England. If I'm not mistaken, this is not new or original to America.
2006-07-18 07:59:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some day, you won't even be able to use a damn toilet without the government watching you...
2006-07-18 07:58:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
privacy is in the home, not in public
2006-07-18 08:58:41 · answer #10 · answered by mike g 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋