January 26

You're being watched

When did the government decide that it is ok to watch us all the time and, more importantly, why did no one voice any objection to this?  In your everday life you're watched by many cameras per day.  The popular statistic bandied about is a person is captured on camera 300 times per day and, although this is probably not accurate, the number of times a person is captured is still alarmingly high.  The justification for this police-like state is it helps convict criminals and keep the streets of Britain a safe place, and yet the recent case of the murder of Joanne Yeates tells us this is not the case.  Society is more and more losing its sense of privacy and the importance of it.  My friends complain to me when I do not upload every single picture I take onto facebook, but rather vet them and only put the good ones up.  But really, I would prefer that no one saw that picture of someone mid-blink that makes them look stoned.  Who knows who will be able to see it, make a copy, and abuse it at some point in the future?  You can bring up privacy settings all you want but really, as the News of the World phone hacking debacle is showing us, just because there are privacy settings doesn't mean people can't get around them.