big brother is coming

[moparstuart]

http://www.livevideo.com/video/GateGod/135F56E491CC4B5FAF3B2C40A853DF91/alpr-automatic-license-plate.aspx

  wow already in use i canada

[stripedelete]

Ain't technology grand?

A child born today will never know privacy or private property. 

[68X426]

Comrade, you got that right. Privacy is so yesterday!

Ironic isn't it? A generation that screams about big brother will also post all their intimacies and life data on face-space, er.. my book, er ... world wide net, er ....

And politicians will limit our economic freedom while promising to protect all the other freedoms.??!!!? Ha.

Seriously, hope somebody can figure a way to attach the plate to a bird and then watch big brother go nuts trying to track it.

[stripedelete]

Comrade, you got that right. Privacy is so yesterday!

Ironic isn't it? A generation that screams about big brother will also post all their intimacies and life data on face-space, er.. my book, er ... world wide net, er ....

Very astute observation!!!!

And to your second point:
I saw Jack Anderson speak in 1991 and I will never forget this part: .... the white knight will ride up in the middle of the mess and say, "I can fix this,  just give me a little of your freedom".......... 

[John_Kunkel]

My stolen Viper was recovered by such a device, so there is an upside to their use.

[68X426]

Excellent for you John. Really.

I have to add that it was what's left of a free market that innovated the Viper tracker, put it up for sale, allowing anyone to obtain it and use it in any manner they saw fit. Without government. With freedom of choice.

I'm in favor of the tracking plate only when it's a criminal on probation. If a good citizen wants the plate voluntarily, that's great too. I'm not for chaos, and no rules, just a balance between freedom and big brother. 

[Chatt69chgr]

If that guy used that thing around here he would get so many hits that he wouldn't know which one to chase first. 

I don't have a problem with something like that as long as they use it ONLY for what he said.  I would like to see it illegal to use it to track peoples movements or for such things as determining whether you had your dog vaccinated, etc.  Next thing will be a kiosk along the highway that will interrogate the computer in your car which will be used to track your movements and issue you a ticket automatically for exceeding the speed limit (assuming you are at that exact location).  Probably would be able to determine if your seat belt was fastened and give you a ticket for that too.

[Mike DC]

 
   
It all starts with safety. 




Ask an adult population to voluntarily chip or GPS-track themselves, and they'll revolt at the idea. 

But if you offer to use it just on criminals, to "protect them" they'll be okay with it. 
Then in a few more years you can offer that same population the same electronic tracking gear to keep track of their pet or prized posessions . . . now they'll pay to buy it from you.  Once they're okay with controlling the pets they'll eventually start to be open to the idea of using it on their children. ("It's just while they're at this young age in this dangerous world we live in, that's all.") 

And once you've raised a generation or two being monitored then you no longer even have to sell them on it.  They'll feel unsafe without it and they will work harder & harder just to pay for the priviliege of having it. 

[1969chargerrtse]

Kinda like our GPS at work.  If you're doing your job and being where you should be, what's the problem?   

[CYACOP]

Kinda like our GPS at work.  If you're doing your job and being where you should be, what's the problem?   

It's a trust issue.

[68X426]

... now they'll pay to buy it from you.  Once they're okay with controlling the pets they'll eventually start to be open to the idea of using it on their children. ("It's just while they're at this young age in this dangerous world we live in, that's all.") 

And once you've raised a generation or two being monitored then you no longer even have to sell them on it.  They'll feel unsafe without it and they will work harder & harder just to pay for the priviliege of having it. 

Great analysis Mike.

[stripedelete]

 
   
It all starts with safety. 




Ask an adult population to voluntarily chip or GPS-track themselves, and they'll revolt at the idea. 

But if you offer to use it just on criminals, to "protect them" they'll be okay with it. 
Then in a few more years you can offer that same population the same electronic tracking gear to keep track of their pet or prized posessions . . . now they'll pay to buy it from you.  Once they're okay with controlling the pets they'll eventually start to be open to the idea of using it on their children. ("It's just while they're at this young age in this dangerous world we live in, that's all.") 

And once you've raised a generation or two being monitored then you no longer even have to sell them on it.  They'll feel unsafe without it and they will work harder & harder just to pay for the priviliege of having it. 

Technology and free market are great, I have no problem with them.  I have no problem with this device/technology.  It is great in this application and probably others.  But, as Mike illustrated, it's that "slippery slope" that we have to watch out for...