We Know a Lot about You
Odds are you will be monitored today — many times over.
Surveillance cameras at airports, subways, banks and other public venues are not the only devices tracking you. Inexpensive, ever-watchful digital sensors are now ubiquitous.
They are in laptop webcams, video-game motion sensors, smartphone cameras, utility meters, passports and employee ID cards. Step out your front door and you could be captured in a high-resolution photograph taken from the air or street by Google or Microsoft, as they update their respective mapping services. Drive down a city thoroughfare, cross a toll bridge, or park at certain shopping malls and your license plate will be recorded and time-stamped.
More on digital sensors from USA Today.
Big Brother has finally arrived. We just didn’t expect it to be from a plethora of persomnal gadgets rather than a concerted government effort to control us.
I agree with Devon. To a certain extent, we have done this to ourselves. Although, I must admit that I don’t think it is entirely bad. We gain a lot of functionality with the Internet and Google maps. In a world where we all have no secrets, secrets no longer seem to matter.
They know more about you than George Orwell ever imagined they would know.
It’s a bit creepy.