Originally Posted by Ezekiel
New York has them on practically every street corner. Big Brother has been watching for a long time. That's not to mention the FBI and the NSA monitoring email, phone calls, text, twitter...
I always wondered if there was any real legal fight that could be won against this type of surveillance.
I remember reading about how the authorities concealed some video surveillance cameras on the light posts and elsewhere in Miami a number of years ago and the people rioted and destroyed the ones that they could find, which ended that experiment then. If Big Brother, or even his little brother in the local police force, wants to monitor any aspect of your life, they will. The so-called "war of drugs" was the initial excuse. Many years ago I wrote that the recently introduced "Patriot Act" just legalized what the government had been doing all along. In theory, there are legal remedies. In theory.