-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <Pine.LNX.3.91.970501182336.502A-100000@fatmans.demon.co.uk>, on 05/01/97 at 12:31 PM, Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk> said:
Bay Alarm said that some British cities have dealt with privacy fears by setting up monitoring centers away from city and police offices, where tapes are kept in case a crime occurs -- crime victims can call up the police and ask them to play back tapes, said Mark Demier of Bay Alarm. The camera systems are also capable of taking pictures in the dark.
Not just cities, quite small towns and residential areas have now taken to using citizen-units tax money installing systems to spy on the very same people. I have now taken to not visiting a town near me (Hastings) because of the CCTV systems in place. Not content with spying on citizens going about their business in towns a number of state funded colleges and universities are now installing CCTV systems. Presumably audio "bugs" will also be in order to ensure the student-units do not say anything unseemly or hinting at some form of intellectual heresy.
Also, a number of car alarm manufacturers are now producing systems to track cars using GPS so if the car is stolen the police can track its movements. I can quite easily envisage a situation in a few years time when it is mandated that all new cars produced must be fitted with such systems so that the government can track the movement of citizens.
One cannot now go out of ones own house without being monitored, and for those of us who are known heretics maybe even that is not true.
Well I invision that in 20-30 years all TV's will be two-way (ala 1984) and any LEA will be able to monitor the activities of the serfs a the push of a button. The infrastructure for this is currently being built. With the merging of technologies: cable, INet, TV, Phone, & Computer all that will be needed is the adding of a mic and video camera which will more then likely be standard features of the computer/communication/entertainment equipment. - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. Finger whgiii@amaranth.com for PGP Key and other info - ----------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: Rumour: NT means Not Tested -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Registered User E-Secure v1.1 ES000000 iQCVAwUBM2j8to9Co1n+aLhhAQE5gAQAhO+H/+OHVq7tDEHrHwvUfvEcwViyipLk i+UGXM8Olk/7HEb07eUFPyCU2oIvBw2KbPvwEHAKGy3SkccxhQdAaWduuDvZciND HuBwQ2OX8i1Vy4oNOaCRBCxmGDtHVmT2FKC7x0MsZqylUqZdRfTKfrEfl+f9oWrs UWqV6cbRGjU= =Ja++ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----