10 dezembro 2002

ECO-TERRORES
We'll All Be Under Surveillance: Computers Will Say What We Are
"For more than 200 years, our liberties have been protected primarily by practical barriers rather than constitutional barriers to government abuse. Because of the sheer size of the nation and its population, the government could not practically abuse a great number of citizens at any given time. In the last decade, however, these practical barriers have fallen to technology."
What's so bad about Total Information Awareness? All in all, I can't see how TIA will do anything except harm innocent people and create new jobs for bureaucrats. Any numerate person who spends five minutes thinking about what is proposed will come to the same conclusion. If our system is going to become this arbitrary, there are going to be an awful lot of lives ruined in this country. I fail to see how the TIA approach could do anything positive for the war on terror or for America in general. It will eat up resources better spent on more proven and acceptable approaches. In fact, such a data-drive approach might actually be more successful if it simply took a random sampling of the population each day.