Thread: Insect 'Spies' Fitted with Video Camera Implants

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

In any case, I don't see why regular folks like us should worry. I mean, who would want to spend time, money, and energy watching us brush our teeth and scratch our asses and sit at work and post journal entries on DV? I think people assume that they're much more important than they actually are.

Exactly, this kind of stuff isn't meant to be used on the general public. Imagine the money and effort necessary to keep tabs on a country's whole poupulation, not to mention how little there is to gain from doing so.

Originally Posted by Spartiate

Exactly, this kind of stuff isn't meant to be used on the general public. Imagine the money and effort necessary to keep tabs on a country's whole poupulation, not to mention how little there is to gain from doing so.

Heh, you'd be surprised. All it takes is a powerful enough computer with a large hard drive, and you can get enough space and computing power too keep a full length file on every person on the planet and still have space left over, with whats pocket change to the government. And a computer like that is relatively easily custom built on the public market.

And keeping tabs on everyone would be useful, its already in effect. For example, the whole FBI wanting eye scans, finger prints and DNA samples of everyone.

Again with the FBI, in that can use your cellphone to listen in on you even when its turned off. They used this technique to catch a lot of people in the Mafia.

Not just that, but, in America at least, all these things about travel papers and National IDs, the whole terrorist watch list. Its easy to keep tabs on everyone. It'd be cheap, relatively effortless, and it'd have a huge benefit. In that it'd be easy to catch criminals, potential threats to society and the government, spies, etc.

Its very 1984ish, but its also very realistic. Very scary too.

But there still has to be people to look over the millions of hours of recordings . I'm just trying to say that no one is watching you brush your teeth, or sleep, maybe change clothing though...

Oh I didn't mean watched by a persons physical eyes 24/7, but the point is the information would be all there if they need it. They could easily keep tabs on everyone and have all that information available with the click of a button. It'd still be being monitored, and you'd still need to make sure not to screw up. Any odd behavior could easily set off a red flag.

Reminds me of the movie "Enemy of the State." Good movie.

I'm sure some people would find that kinky though.

Warrantless Wiretaps
RealID
Video cameras on city street corners
Hypodermic chips

All of these are ideas that, had someone brought them up ages ago, naysayers would shout "Pssh. Yeah right. They wouldn't do that to the general population."

I'm not saying that they, at the drop of a dime, are going to start sending swarms of these things out to "watch the population brush their teeth," but it only takes the smallest bit of reason to harden the possibility that they could send them out at particular "places of interest" to survey.

If not now. What about 10 years from now? It's only in looking at the possible uses for the technology that things become unsettling, not the presently broadcast uses.

And no, actually, people don't actually have to sit around and watch the monitors anymore.
That's automated now, too.