Canadians appear to be striving to make up for lost time in realizing the dream of George Orwell’s “1984.” The most oppressive aspect of the life of Winston Smith in Oceania, Airship One was the televisions that allowed Big Brother to watch you 24/7. Ottawa airport is now wired with hidden microphones to allow the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to continually eavesdrop on travellers’ conversations.
CBSA spokesman Chris Kealey offered a curious reassurance to passengers: “It is important to note that even though audio technology is installed, no audio is recorded at this time. It will become functional at a later date.” However, when that occurs, the technology, “will record conversations.” Officials insist that the constant monitoring will help them deal with gangs and crime. It will also produce a zone of continual monitoring and recording for citizens. In both the United States and Canada, citizens are gradually becoming desensitized to surveillance. The danger is that this will become the new normal.
The officials have committed to putting up a “privacy notice” for passengers. Please let it say “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.”
Source: Ottawa Citizen
AY, thanks for the warning, my credit card hasn’t changed physically but I’m already doomed, I do almost all of my purchasing with plastic. A profile of my buying habits is pretty much already recorded.
Gene, LOL, I halfway suspected that you would be familiar with POI. 🙂
(aside to the ladies: there’s significant eye-candy with Jim Caviezel as one of the two leads. Season #2 this fall.)
CBSA spokesman Chris Kealey offered a curious reassurance to passengers: “It is important to note that even though audio technology is installed, no audio is recorded at this time. It will become functional at a later date.” However, when that occurs, the technology, “will record conversations.” Officials insist that the constant monitoring will help them deal with gangs and crime. It will also produce a zone of continual monitoring and recording for citizens. In both the United States and Canada, citizens are gradually becoming desensitized to surveillance. The danger is that this will become the new normal.
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Better hope that doesn’t become the new normal. I already did it. At the airports. I didn’t put up with their shit
If they want to search you, fine. But they have a good reason. To give full credit, the security personnel were very polite. Most of them appeared uncomfortable.
LK,
I think you are correct and in some areas of government its already implemented…..
As a public service announcement…. You need to look at your bank cards, debit, credit, check or otherwise and see if they have a computer chip, blink which is a wifi or looking thing imprinted on the card(s) some place, maybe on the back…… All’s you will have to do in the future is wave it in front of the point of sale, etc…. It’s fully implemented in Europe as well as other countries….. The crooks are already ahead of the game here….which should be implemented fully in about 5 years…. He had his American Express card scanned while he was in San Francisco this last weekend for 23 thousand dollars…. He says he never took that card out of his pocket…..
Blech…I haven’t seen that.
LK,
I love “Person of Interest”. It’s my favorite documentary on television.
And don’t forget the siphoning up of every personal digital transmission. Yea, soon.
Does anyone but me think that the intro sequence from “Person Of Interest” is what law enforcement is going to look like shortly?
I will reiterate my contention that all of the tools for an absolute security state (read totalitarian state) are available but just need a bit more refinement and integration for implementation.
We’ve have available ubiquitous CCTV, audio capability, domestic surveillance drones, DNA samples from everyone stopped by police, the state looting (information theft) of all electronic devices of anyone stopped by any law enforcement, facial recognition software, the wholesale, voluntary fingerprinting of children (by frightened parents), information automation and sharing by all law enforcement and security agencies… it’s there and almost ready. Soon, very soon, then some excuse will present itself and law enforcement will look as different from today as today looks from 20 years ago.
“With each passing day we get light years further apart.”
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unless we behave like quantum particles, then we can find ourselves going 10,000 times the speed of light. And….super-positioned everywhere throughout the space -time continuum in a single moment…..Q!
It’s either on my nose or it is impenetrable.
The mash-up? The mixing of film genre, in this case. The principal speaker was very bad. Hope it was not your fave.
With each passing day we get light years further apart.
Now we speak different dialects, almost different languages. The difference between Shakespeare tech-wise is less from that of my birth than on to today.
Who remembers what a world without internet and smartphones was like. Those will leave us in decades.
And we still halt along, hindered by greed and “me-first”.
But “progress” is never guaranteed. Two thousand or more years from to the end of peasants bound to the land under contract time ended in 1930s in Sweden, and Italy too. 1930? Ancient history. None tell the tale here.
Pompous old fool. Be quiet.
Id707, this is a mashup:
http://youtu.be/S1JdPvyy93I
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1JdPvyy93I&w=560&h=315%5D
Q as in:
1.–quantum random effect, beyond reach and control
2.–Q as in Bond
3.–Star Trek
4.–????
Oh, to be born today. The sights I would see (with slight connection to a certain movie).
1) To be stoned or drunk
(2) To look raggedy or beaten-up in appearance
(3) A mix of different music tracks to produce a new track
(1) Man I was so mashup yesterday after all them beers. I was well caned.
(2) Jeez, he looked so mashup after they caned his ass.
In Seattle the both the busses and the underground metro stations have audio surveillance and CCTV (in the tunnels). It’s only certain bus lines, mostly the ones who run downtown. So most everyone is quiet waiting.
WOOSTY,
WOW, DOUBLE WOW. What else have you been hiding in that “bean”.
Poetic even.
What’s a mashup? I’ll go look in my urban dictionary. Watch out for suns, they burn. And out quicklly.
jameslee17
1, June 19, 2012 at 4:38 pm
What really gets me is that those people that will be monitoring on the other side of the wall will be one of your family members, friends or neighbors. And why will they do it? For a paycheck. Damn be the rest of the world as long as I get that paycheck…
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oh, I don’t know….that sounds like propaganda….
So keep on staring at that goat, the CIA did not succeed either.
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one of my fav movies!
of course there are differences between quantum mechanics and the mechanics of human beans…but we still are subject to physics and if I look at a lover and see the sun to my moon I can also extrapolate in other fields as well….
my point was, you can put all the cameras and all the recordings in as many places as you like, but you cannot stop the “Q”….or whatever mash-up you care to use…
as for dreams, well reality is pretty damn dull without them, and progress, without dreams, is impossible….
🙂
What really gets me is that those people that will be monitoring on the other side of the wall will be one of your family members, friends or neighbors. And why will they do it? For a paycheck. Damn be the rest of the world as long as I get that paycheck…
Woosty,
Won’t play the smart ass……but there is a difference between quantum effects amd effects on macro objects, and especially so when we are dealing with systems with “thinking”(?) objects like us.
So keep on staring at that goat, the CIA did not succeed either.
As for wishful thinking, aren’t dreams lovely, but sometimes a pain too. Or do you believe that dreams are fulfilled.
See, I have still the honor of being confused.
Woody V — Are you suggesting that you are getting less equal equality from the courts than some powerful wealthy corporation can get from the courts? Because if that’s what you’re suggesting, you’re advocating the overthrow of the system, and you need to be monitored very carefully. Please answer the following simple questions: Are you now or have you ever been…