It seems every day we read or hear about another invasion of our privacy that is being suggested or implemented under the guise of public safety or security.
Our cell phones have Global Positioning Satellite chips to allow the location of the phone to be tracked, and if you have OnStar, your car can be tracked. Our streets our covered in traffic cameras, ATM cameras and private security cameras which seemingly hang from every pole. Prying eyes can even look through our clothes as we attempt to board an airplane, all under the guise of security. The federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals even recently ruled that the government can put a GPS device on our vehicles and track our every move.
In Great Britain, the incredibly clear images from one of those on the street “Big Brother” cameras has become an Internet sensation as tens of thousands of people worldwide have viewed the video of a woman approaching a cat, petting the cat, then picking the animal up and dropping it into a trash dumpster.
Here in the U.S., mobile vans are being equipped with full body scanning technology to be able to peer into trunks of vehicles without the 4th amendment search warrant inconvenience. The manufacturer claims that the vans are not being equipped with strong enough equipment to prowl our streets as mobile peeping toms. Of course, we were also assured that the airport equipment would not be saving the under clothing images of innocent travelers, only to learn that many of those images are in fact archived.
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