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Don't worry, we're only hunting criminals.

Aug 27, 2016 4:58PM PDT

Post was last edited on August 27, 2016 4:58 PM PDT

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it was not a secret
Aug 27, 2016 5:03PM PDT

it was not a secret, they just did not tell anyone. I wonder if they had stingray on the plane.

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True.
Aug 27, 2016 5:07PM PDT

I wanted to find a CBS article on this and they didn't nail that part.

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Umbrellas
Aug 27, 2016 7:21PM PDT

Everyone in Baltimore could start using umbrellas all the time, have them all the same color.

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make sure they are made of aluminum foil.
Aug 28, 2016 2:30AM PDT

the thomas crown affair with an aluminium twist

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One of my favorite movie sequences:
Aug 30, 2016 1:55PM PDT

When the real psychic is helping Tom Cruise escape the bad guys in Minority Report.
She has him take an umbrella from a display in a mall. Later, she takes him outside just after rain starts. Last shot is from a mall camera, overhead.

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What would one think of their own chances of carrying out
Aug 28, 2016 2:14AM PDT

a normal day's activity that includes going into public places without having their movements tracked or faces recorded? I'd think fairly slim. Big Brother is already here but he has many identities..."Google" being one of them. Google tracks you and sells your profile to all sorts of people and entities that may or may not have the purest of interests and I have a strong suspicion that Cnet is one of their customers.

Personally, I feel that we've created most of this mess ourselves by encouraging misbehavior rather than discouraging it. We have a legal system that's stacked against the folks it was meant to protect. I can imagine that the use of aerial footage in court just might create more job security for lawyers than it will remove criminals from the streets. As for street, shopping and sidewalk surveillance, there is one potential benefit. If you forget which day you went to went to the mall, you can bet that your time stamped image is in someone's phone or security system's hard drive.

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"It's OK, we're hunting criminals"
Aug 28, 2016 9:29AM PDT

What this reminds me of is from history where in the name of hunting criminals, well, let's get that old cartoon and slide about it here.


As those days are past the new surveillance is bound to trample liberties we took for granted.

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USA
Aug 29, 2016 5:22AM PDT

All you need to know is in my new name

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Take away the police and you can catch the criminals
Aug 29, 2016 5:23AM PDT

No more no no

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(NT) Good catch. Herblock rules.
Aug 30, 2016 1:57PM PDT
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In related films in the US, the good guys win.
Aug 30, 2016 1:58PM PDT

But in the UK, they don't.