Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother 191
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 (Score:3, Funny)
Better have a case of No-Doze. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Accountability (Score:5, Funny)
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 (Score:4, Funny)
That's all fine and good, as long as authoritarian regimes remember that Santa Claus is watching them [youtube.com] .