Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother

alphadogg writes "As the price of digital storage drops and the technology to tap electronic communication improves, authoritarian governments will soon be able to perform retroactive surveillance on anyone within their borders, according to a Brookings Institute report. These regimes will store every phone call, instant message, email, social media interaction, text message, movements of people and vehicles and public surveillance video and mine it at their leisure, according to 'Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Government,' written by John Villaseno, a senior fellow at Brookings and a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA."

My response

[blackbeak]

I was gonna comment, but then....

Better have a case of No-Doze.

[pro151]

If they decide to "mine" my data, movements and activities, they will be fast asleep within 15 minutes.

Re:Accountability

[tomhudson]

blame that on your state. i can walk into any gun store and walk out with as many rifles as i can afford, and as many pistols as i can afford six days later.

You're doing it wrong. Walk into any gun store with a rifle, walk out with as many pistols as you can carry the same day*

(*note for the humour-impared - it's a joke, already!)

The one true higher power

[PopeAlien]

That's all fine and good, as long as authoritarian regimes remember that Santa Claus is watching them [youtube.com] .