You know the point I was trying to make or maybe I’m overestimating your intelligence.Pretty sure govt's and govt backed useful idiots have higher body counts than school shooters. Try harder?
I am a bit of a Neanderthal .You know the point I was trying to make or maybe I’m overestimating your intelligence.
I can’t speak for Canada but in the US it’s no different than any warrantless search/seizure, at least on the law enforcement side.
If you’re going down the conspiracy route, you give our government too much credit.
Can’t argue with that and there are always examples of abuse of power out there. Accountability is the key to this stuff, but we both know people slip through the cracks. I know for us to leverage electronic surveillance there is a system in place to ensure abuses don’t occur but we have a dumb ass in another office who will be going to prison because he had access and wasn’t caught until he had been spying on known females for a while.I am a bit of a Neanderthal .
That said, I'm looking at technology from a Guns, Germs, and Steel, perspective. This surveillance tech is very much a weapon that only a few have access to. In this case, the civies are the natives.
As to giving govt too much credit, there are obvious examples of people with questionable/no moral values who use this technology to their own benefit. When people have the backing of govt they are capable of doing horrific things.
And therin lies the rub. If we have people at the lower level slipping through the cracks, I can only imagine what abuses of power the political elite are getting away with. Accountability is a great thing when it's actually the law of the land, right now not so much.Can’t argue with that and there are always examples of abuse of power out there. Accountability is the key to this stuff, but we both know people slip through the cracks. I know for us to leverage electronic surveillance there is a system in place to ensure abuses don’t occur but we have a dumb ass in another office who will be going to prison because he had access and wasn’t caught until he had been spying on known females for a while.
Proliferation of this technology to the civilian populace and the enforcement of the laws that our political elite and bureaucrats are skirting. Problem with enforcement of the law is having to root out all the corruption in the higher echelons.That’s across the board. What do you propose? Who regulates it? At least with knowledge of the tech and ability out in the open there can be some sort of checks and balances. Eliminate it? Sure, that will happen…then it stays behind closed doors and used in the shadows.
I’ve always said that I’m excited for the day someone flips the switch, like Snake Plissken at the end of Escape From LA.
Welcome to the human race.