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.
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