I hate crime, but I have tracking and the surveillance state even more.
My neighbor recently had her Jeep stolen. Someone has recently been in my car and glove compartment. This is awful and these people need to be caught and prosecuted.
But the fact that the government can track everywhere we go (they already can with smartphones) is the first step to punishing people for association or enforcing where we go. And these systems will be abused.
goatlover•12m ago
Yes we can already see this with ICE going after social media critics, and the potential for it with the president's NSPM-7 directive defining domestic terrorists as anything that's not "traditional values", anti-fascist or critical of capitalism.
beaviskhan•11m ago
Not "will be": "are being" abused. Even a cursory search finds many cases of police abusing the information to stalk exes, for example.
bmau5•53m ago
This is a weird article. There's no evidence or proof, just the author claiming he did it.
thebitguru•50m ago
Yeah, sounds like a clickbait. Did you notice the paid sign up at the bottom? I guess we will never find out...
"Hey! Are you new here? The rest of this story is only for paid subscribers. Upgrade to read it all."
echelon•53m ago
My neighbor recently had her Jeep stolen. Someone has recently been in my car and glove compartment. This is awful and these people need to be caught and prosecuted.
But the fact that the government can track everywhere we go (they already can with smartphones) is the first step to punishing people for association or enforcing where we go. And these systems will be abused.
goatlover•12m ago
beaviskhan•11m ago