pcr is not pleased with our digital existence and neither am i; 

 

The Digital World Is Becoming a Nightmare

Paul Craig Roberts

Modern technology has provided government with growing capability to monitor our lives.  The amount of freedom in a “free American” is slowly being reduced to nothing.  Flock cameras are one such freedom-destroying tool.

This article referenced below about police misuse and incompetent use of Flock surveillance cameras should scare you to death.  And it is not just about the cameras’ violation of privacy which is supposed to be constitutionally protected.  It is also about the police who seem to be uninterested in whether they have the wrong person.  Why work if you can charge someone?  

The claim has been made that these cameras solve crimes, but they seem to be equally as effective in encouraging and causing crimes by police. Neither the cameras nor the police are infallible.  The police do not easily let go of their and the cameras’ mistakes.

The question of privacy has not yet been resolved by the courts. Some federal judges have ruled that there is no right to privacy on public roads, but this argument evades the fact that camera tracking creates a detailed picture of a person’s life–his medical appointments, where he goes to church, his entertainments, who his friends are, his political associations. If it is wrong for a person to be stalked by another person, why can a person be stalked by a camera network?...........more...........