Comment by Buttons840
2 hours ago
That's trying to unbake the cake. This technology will not go away. The powerful will use it in secret; and sometimes the less powerful too.
I'd rather see surveillance first pointed towards government leaders, and then once the government is highly surveilled, then maybe we can trust the government to surveil everyone else.
I don't know. My idea here isn't very realistic. It's not going to happen (though we should still try), so maybe just outlawing all of it would be more realistic.
I concur, but let's be real here 99% of HN will be screaming bloody murder when someone makes an app to tell jobsites when to have break time based on where the unmarked Ford Explorer that probably has the OSHA guy in it is.
People have no principals and no stomach for giving up a little bit of state jackboot applied on those they hate exchange for it not being applied on those they don't.