Anyone remember the fuss over the introduction of ID cards in the UK a few years back? The idea was dropped.daveuprite wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 9:26 ambut now its just the normal and everyone is happy with it.
Not sure about that bit. There is still a large portion of the population very concerned about the surveillance culture, and even more so in light of how the data can now be manipulated. There is evidence that crime in CCTV-monitored areas just moves to less-monitored areas, rather than dropping overall.
If you combine CCTV in public with number plate recognition facilities, the constant footprint you leave when you make financial transactions, the gathering of data via social media and shopping sites, and a load of other means - you have a society that has never examined itself as closely as today. Which obviously makes it all the more important that we know who is doing the monitoring, why, for whom and to what end?
But now, everyone pays for and carries their own personal tracking device, equipped with a microphone and multiple cameras, and is happy to pay handsomely to do so.
(Because I'm a rebel, I sometimes leave mine at home when I go out walking the dogs. That'll show 'em.)
then there's all the info people put up on Facebook etc...in the name of God, why?
One of the reasons I left the TRF was it changed from Trail Riders Fellowship to Trail Riders Facebook. I wasn't going to play.