Thread: Insect 'Spies' Fitted with Video Camera Implants

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Btw, something like a video camera in the street doesn't exactly invade my privacy unless I want to shop lift.

Well, as someone who didn't grow up as an angel (), I suppose my perspective is just a little different. A lot of my earlier years (and some of my present) were spent roaming the streets with friends, doing plenty of things that - while victimless and/or non-violent - would get us, at the very least, harassed by the police. For some of us, in some of the areas we live, it's just a part of growing up. Because of things like that, I have a big problem with not being able to roam around my own town/city/block without having government issued video cameras in my face 24/7.

Next thing you know people will have these implants when they are feotuses sp? It will be a custom thing when you are born. The world seems to be getting mroe stupid by the day, where is the freedom? It's like the government are fascists.

I'm going to swat every fly i see from now on. holy shit.

Originally Posted by ExoByte

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.

Why does all this sound like a preamble to a police state..

Originally Posted by ranma187

I'm going to swat every fly i see from now on. holy shit.

What if they are alien flies?

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Well, as someone who didn't grow up as an angel (), I suppose my perspective is just a little different. A lot of my earlier years (and some of my present) were spent roaming the streets with friends, doing plenty of things that - while victimless and/or non-violent - would get us, at the very least, harassed by the police. For some of us, in some of the areas we live, it's just a part of growing up. Because of things like that, I have a big problem with not being able to roam around my own town/city/block without having government issued video cameras in my face 24/7.

Hehe! Yeah I guess I can see your POV now.

Hmm now I'm curious about you, you naughty boy.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Hmm now I'm curious about you, you naughty boy.

Heheh. That's all classified, love. I could tell you, but not until you're uh...properly initiated into my inner-circle.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Heheh. That's all classified, love. I could tell you, but not until you're uh...properly initiated into my inner-circle.

Does it involve and and ??

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Well, as someone who didn't grow up as an angel (), I suppose my perspective is just a little different. A lot of my earlier years (and some of my present) were spent roaming the streets with friends, doing plenty of things that - while victimless and/or non-violent - would get us, at the very least, harassed by the police. For some of us, in some of the areas we live, it's just a part of growing up. Because of things like that, I have a big problem with not being able to roam around my own town/city/block without having government issued video cameras in my face 24/7.

The video cameras are a great idea though. London has a huge system of cameras in its streets and they go a long way to cutting down crime. It's not like the smaller towns could afford it anyways, but imagine how helpful it would be in a place like Miami for example.

its things like this that make me want to move to some deserted island somewhere :no: Wait 10 years when everyone is drafted into the the 3rd world war, and all this stuff is used. We'll all die.

Maybe thats a bit dramatic, but still...this stuff worries me.