Privacy? Wazzat? (San Diego, Sacramento, Escondido: university, law, stores)

[Curmudgeon]

First cameras in stores and on the streets. Then the green light to red light cameras. Finally cameras in police cars. Body scans in airports. Satellite surveillance. GPS tracking of cell phones. Now this!

Driver cams: Safety tool or the road to loss of privacy - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee (http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/28/3216068/driver-cams-safety-tool-or-the.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics - broken link)

Anyone wonder or worry about what's next? I think it's madness gone ballistic!

[Lovehound]

I don't understand why we need a law to allow dash board cameras. Can't you just install one if you want to? What would be a controversy would be to require the cameras, and I don't see anything indicating that would happen (at least at the present time).

[Fontucky]

"It seemed like a common-sense approach," Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher said of permitting but not requiring the use of video recorders."

For now. I don't trust that bunch of nanny goat Marxists in Sacto.

[californio sur]

I think cameras are a good thing for all drivers of public transportation vehicles [including trains] since accidents have occurred when the operators are preoccupied with things like texting [anyone remember the train conductor whose distraction resulted in the death of 25 people?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcF5s...eature=related

[nullgeo]

Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury and dozens and dozens of others weren't writing fiction, you know ... it's called 'prescience' ... and it's been around since before Pandora's Box ... the rate of acceleration of which costly wonders is fueled by the love of money -- that is: by marketeers to ever conceive of unnecessary 'new and improved' products and services to sell to the gullible. It's not politics at the root -- left / right, conservative / liberal -- those are symptoms of human nature's frantic anxieties and perceived solutions to the same -- it's greed.

You'd wonder how humanity ever survived 10,000's of years without all these gadgets! Good grief! If we make the world any more 'safe and responsible' where are we gonna put all the people we save from themselves?!

I will now change my screen name to 'Luddite'

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

"It seemed like a common-sense approach," Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher said of permitting but not requiring the use of video recorders."

For now. I don't trust that bunch of nanny goat Marxists in Sacto.

This is something you can't blame on the Bay Area, the liberals, or even the Dems, considering Nathan Fletcher's party affiliation and district.

However, nannyism in California is thoroughly bipartisan and San Diego was rated by the libertarian Reason magazine as the least free and most nanny statish big city in California (although all big cities in California are nanny statish and have low tolerance for personal freedom, SD is the worst of them all.) So it's no surprise that authoritarian Fletcher represents SD (specifically La Jolla, University City, Rancho Bernardo, Scripps Ranch, Poway, and parts of Escondido)

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by majoun

This is something you can't blame on the Bay Area, the liberals, or even the Dems, considering Nathan Fletcher's party affiliation and district.

Which is why I used the blanket term "Marxist". I reserve "socialist" for when I'm pounding on the LibDems.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

Which is why I used the blanket term "Marxist". I reserve "socialist" for when I'm pounding on the LibDems.

Those Marxists have infiltrated the GOP, also...

[Fontucky]

Which is why I used the blanket term "Marxist".

[Twinkle Toes]

I have a camera on my computer. Wanna see what I'm wearing now???????