Friday, February 7, 2014

We Suppose This Erosion Of The Fourth Amendment Will Only Be Stopped By Application Of The Second Amendment

Pigs will soon be peeping on you as never before. In the street.The chance enough of you sheep resist is zero, as bolded:
There are going to be controversies and lawsuits about the details, sorting out what kinds of sensors cops will be allowed to use and when. But law enforcement is almost certainly going to win the argument, first because people usually opt for safety at the expense of privacy, and second because at least parts of what the law enforcement officials claim will have genuine merit. It really will make some kinds of policing more efficient and effective. It really will catch some criminals. Getting scanned by a cop wearing augmented reality glasses as you walk by him is certainly preferable to getting slammed against a wall and frisked. And by the time we've fully considered whether the privacy invasion is too high a price to pay, it'll be firmly in place and there'll be no going back.

2 comments:

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Can't go wrong with the X-Ray Spex! The Google Spex are another thing entirely.

M. Bouffant said...

Sex-Ray Editor:
Yezzz, I figgered you'd appreciate it. Didn't wanna do "Oh Bondage ..." then this title seemed relevant. Or referential. (Somewhere in the ballpark of meaning, for sure.)