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Surveillance in Boston bombing raises issues
The public release of photos and videos in the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was made possible in large part because we now live in a society where we are never long out of the field of view of a camera mounted somewhere or carried by someone.
The outcome will no doubt bring another round in the debate on the pros and cons of the seemingly Orwellian scenario of a camera on every street corner and in every citizen’s purse or pocket.
In the bombing, it is just that scenario that allowed the FBI to release videos and photos of two men they had identified as suspects in the act that killed three people and injured dozens more.
Surveillance videos came first, from businesses and institutions along the streets adjacent to the marathon finish line where the two explosive devices were planted and then detonated.
The release of those videos sent scores of people scrambling to scan the photos they had snapped with innumerable smartphones and digital cameras. The result was even more, and clearer, pictures of the alleged suspects flooding into the FBI.
Some will argue for the benefits of the technology that found them; others will worry about that technology’s ability to find — and see — any or all of us, and what that means to our privacy,
The concern is not a new one. Ben Franklin famously said, “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
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2013-04-21 11:15:07
Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-surveillance-in-boston-bombing-raises-issues
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