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Always on Surveillance

Posted December 31, 2007 12:00 AM

The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad. Do you think this trend will cause a decrease in crime? Can such a system actually pick a criminal out of a crowd?

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Re: Always on Surveillance

01/07/2008 9:35 PM

No, Crime will adapt

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01/18/2008 12:20 AM

The system is already in place and fuctional. It will cause an increase in crime, because the ones operating it are breaking laws at a record pace.

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Re: Always on Surveillance

04/26/2008 7:30 PM

Its invacious and demoralizing to the agents and "victims" (not sure which one is which). Can you imagine having every move or thought monitored by strangers who are hiding in your shadows? Putting your information in a computer database for all to see, remaining there for ever? I'm pretty sure if I were to go out and attempt to collect this information, put it in a database, so I can pick a criminal out of a crowd.... I'd become the criminal. Are they going to let these individuals know their collecting data on them? I'm an ex-con, successfully terminated my sentence. I'm no longer a criminal, so where do the individuals come from? Parolee's?

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