That
would be a miracle in my case because my phone doesn't have a camera.
But if you're phone was watching you, then that's the best protection you can have
It's
the old Engineering Problem again.
The
cell phone may watch you, but who is watching the footage that the
phone is producing? If there are more cell phones than people viewing
their output, then you're just lost in the crowd of data.
My
favourite example of this is London. It has the most surveillance
cameras in any capital in the world. Every part of London is seen by
at least 3 cameras pointing in different directions. So that means
every trip I've made to the capital has been meticulously filmed and
recorded. Yes, me and 16.8 million other visitors along with 8.563
million residents. How is anyone going to be able to sift through all
of that data just to find me?
Now,
how may phone users are there in the world? And who is going to sift
through all of that to find you?
Of
course, civil liberties only mean anything in large communities. In
smaller ones, where everyone knows everyone else, the concept of
civil liberties is a nonsense. Not only does everyone know everybody
else but everyone knows everything about everyone else. There are few
secrets amongst the members of small communities. And that is much
more pervasive and efficient than your cell phone will ever be.
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