waiter, there's a spy in my soup

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Rodney Van Meter <rdv () sfc wide ad jp>
Date: September 25, 2009 6:43:55 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: waiter, there's a spy in my soup

Dave, for IP, if you wish:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/sep/20/henry-porter-cctv-surveillance

Henry Porter says,

"Last week, I went out with some friends after a party. We ended up in  
a restaurant in Marsham Street, central London, the heart of  
surveillance land. Nearby, there is a crossroads where I recently  
found myself late at night waiting for a cab and counting the cameras  
that watched the empty junction. I reached 28 by the time a cab  
arrived."

<snip>

"[Pauline Hadaway] writes, 'Much of the contemporary paranoia around  
photography appears to be driven by vague suspicion rather than any  
real present danger.'"

<snip>

Well said.

Nevertheless, I'm of more than half a mind to agree with David Brin,  
who argued a decade ago (in _The Transparent Society_) that privacy is  
dead, and we should just get over it, and try to see that we have as  
much access to information about the government and corporations as  
they have about us.  No government secrecy directives, transparent  
companies.

Who will watch the watchers?

                --Rod




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