American students and citizens as a whole are being trained to not expect any privacy, and that the government has near complete authority to know where you are at what you are doing at all times. That’s the opinion of many privacy and civil liberties experts, and it is a chilling view. Our countries founding fathers would be shocked to see how much freedom we have willingly or unknowingly ceded to the government.
This post at pogowasright outlines the many ways that students across the US are being monitored and surveilled constantly, and learning to accept it as the norm.
After last week’s ruling that police can track your car without a warrant broke, maybe the public’s awareness of these issues will increase, but right now it is a battle we are losing inch by inch, every day.
Worth the read.
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(Via balloon juice)
More on the surveillance state from Glenn Greenwald, and an article on ever present police cameras and scanners.
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