expired: opposing surveillance
tired: getting surveilled by the cops
wired: surveilling the cops
Tldr: Despite the growing surveillance state reliant on technologies like smart cameras and gunshot detectors, this has also enabled everyday citizen to scrutinize law enforcement themselves through open source methodologies.
This has lead to proposed laws in the US that bans the publishing information related to individual ICE agents online. We also know about Apple and Google banning apps that document ICE activity or the arrest of those charged with filming arrests.
It’s a hard pill to swallow especially since we all know the state “monopolizes” a form of legal surveillance. But, there is apparently a line drawn at public accountability?
At what point should someone lose their right to privacy for the sake of accountability and transparency?
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Please stop tempting me with subscribing to Wired my wallet can’t take it!
Very interesting take that in the end is telling. If we need to surveill everyone for their safety but the government doesn’t want to accept surveillance either, just sounds like they want a surveillance state where they have all the power. There is a nuanced argument to be made about this difference between law enforcement and regular people having access to the same information, but in the end you loop back to the same conclusion. We must be surveilled but the government can never be surveilled.
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Like the exemptions for politicians in some of the previous attempts at pushing through Chat Control in the EU.
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Recent events bring me back to this article..