Thread: The Erosion of Civil Liberty in America

I don't want to worry you guys over the Atlantic, but I read the following on a site I visit quite regularly

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"One of the more-unsettling revelations we’ve had this month is that the FBI routinely deploys drones over American soil. Unlike the behemoths that float over the Middle East, raining hellfire death on weddings and suchlike, these “domestic” drones are about the size of a model airplane—and they’re used exclusively for surveillance. Given what we’ve recently learned about the NSA, the idea of fleets of spy drones continuously monitoring the civilian population should be worrying enough; and it might be about to get a whole lot worse.

Scientists are now on the verge of constructing fully-autonomous bee-sized robots. Once that happens, it’s only a small step before we find microscopic cameras swarming across our skies, monitoring our every move. At that point we can kiss our privacy goodbye. All of us—me, you, your girlfriend, your mom—will be under what will basically amount to 24/7 surveillance. It sounds like the stuff of paranoid nightmares—but so does an unaccountable government organisation constantly monitoring all our communications. And, as with the NSA, we probably won’t know about it until it’s already happening."

Originally Posted by TiredPhil

I don't want to worry you guys over the Atlantic, but I read the following on a site I visit quite regularly

I Quote

"One of the more-unsettling revelations we’ve had this month is that the FBI routinely deploys drones over American soil. Unlike the behemoths that float over the Middle East, raining hellfire death on weddings and suchlike, these “domestic” drones are about the size of a model airplane—and they’re used exclusively for surveillance. Given what we’ve recently learned about the NSA, the idea of fleets of spy drones continuously monitoring the civilian population should be worrying enough; and it might be about to get a whole lot worse.

Scientists are now on the verge of constructing fully-autonomous bee-sized robots. Once that happens, it’s only a small step before we find microscopic cameras swarming across our skies, monitoring our every move. At that point we can kiss our privacy goodbye. All of us—me, you, your girlfriend, your mom—will be under what will basically amount to 24/7 surveillance. It sounds like the stuff of paranoid nightmares—but so does an unaccountable government organisation constantly monitoring all our communications. And, as with the NSA, we probably won’t know about it until it’s already happening."

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