Re: [sudo-discuss] Rally this Tue. 11/19: Against Oakland's Planned Surveillance Center! 5:30pm at City Hall!

It's a waste of money, when Facebook and Google provide all that surveillance "free." If Google Glass takes off, the streets will be full of walking surveillance drones, and tapping that feed ought to be "free" too. IMHO Oakland should use the money to hire 300 more cops. That's 200 to get back up to average for a city of this size, plus another hundred since we're the official Robbery Capitol of America. Add another dozen or so 911 dispatchers and we might not have to wait 36 minutes to reach one on a weekend night. As for chilling effects on liberty, few things are quite as chilling as having a robber's gun pointed at your guts on the street. Astronomical crime rates are a big chill on freedom of association and movement. So the question is, how to lower the probability of getting mugged, robbed, house-burgled, car-burgled, carjacked, beaten-up, raped, stabbed, shot, or murdered, without jumping on the Big Data bandwagon?