At 11:19 AM 7/6/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Joe,
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>You seem to be wrong on both counts (don't take personal offense to that...).
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>Check this out: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,28855,00.html
Interesting. That seems to be the same system that's supposed to be in
use in London. BTW the description in the news-bite is NOT the same as
that described in the original message. Tampa is using it to look for
wanted criminals and not racial profiling. I for one don't have a problem
with that but it would be easy (prehaps too easy) for the system to be
abused or be modified to be invasive to law abiding citizens.
While we're on this topic, I'm a lot more concerned about the
commercail systems that tack people and their social and buying habits than
I am with the government systems. A good example of one of the commercail
systems is the soon to be implemented plan to install GPS systems in ALL
cell phones. Weather you're aware of it or not, the cell phones are on and
transmitting anytime that they're turned on. This means that your cell
phone company will soon be able to track to within inches you anytime you
have your cell phone turned on. A good example of what that means that
they will know exactly where you shop and what sections of the store that
you visit, even to the extent of what types of books you read basedon your
location in book stores. That will be a gold mine of information to
advertisers, tele-marketers and other low-lifes. In addition they will
know where you work (and therefore a good idea of your income), the routes
that you take to work, where you spend your vacations, where you eat, etc.
It would be like having a private eye tailing yuou everywhere you went.
>You don't actually believe that you would be informed that your state
>government was going to be watching did you?
Actually yes. Most of them are proud of their toys and they like to
brag and show them off. It's also very informative to listen to some of the
public hearings such as the police budget requests. That's how we found
out that our Orange County sheriff wated a tank in case of riots at an
international soccer match that was held here a few years ago.
>I didn't know that my state government (Texas) was watching license plates
>at the borders. I make trips to Louisiana quite frequently to visit
>family. Gives me the shivers.....
That doesn't surprise me. They've been doing that at borders for years.
Joe
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>>> I'm thinking of those cameras attached to computers which are
>>>being used in Florida to identify and track people, based on their
>>>facial features, walking on the streets and sidewalks, in an attempt
>>>to "catch criminals."
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>> WHAT??? where did you hear that? I live in Florida and I've never
>> heard it.
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>> You'd guess wrong too! We have very few cameras here. The ones
>> that we have are mainly located in banks, ATMs, convience stores and the
>> like. We have very few cameras in public areas.
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>> Joe
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Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 13:18:30 BST