Mass Surveillance Debate
Comments discuss the risks and implications of surveillance technologies, including government overreach, privacy erosion, and the balance between security benefits and potential abuse.
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Counterpoint:https://blog.cr.yp.to/20241028-surveillance.html
Given the title and article is sensationalized, does anyone else see that the greater reliance organizations and govnts put on mass-production of homogeneous survellience technology, the easier it will be to abuse, and the harder it will be to be detected. A double-edge sword it is.
I don't think products like this encourage the "deep surveillance state" - if anything, they weaken it by loosening their monopoly on high-tech covert surveillance. These things can be used for good as well as evil - you could spy on a corrupt official or catch someone cheating just as easily as anything else.
Wouldn't it make more sense for surveillance to route around privacy ?
Serves as a sobering reminder why ubiquitous surveillance is bad.
Yeah, more surveillance and control for sure.
Oh the irony, the surveillance is too much, let's put more surveillance in place.
Wouldn't this encourage the government to increase surveillance, so they can always keep all the ones they really care about secret?
A theorised benefit at the guaranteed cost of perpetual surveillance. No thanks.
"We need to live with surveillance"