[sudo-discuss] Breaking: Oakland to lead country in, diverting anti-terror funding to ubiquitous warrantless surveillance

[GtwoG PublicOhOne]

So is the objection to ubiquitous microphones, the closed software that
controls them, the fact that they might be turned on without peoples'
knowledge, or the fact that the police can use them to listen to what's
nearby...? 

And, how does that description differ from a "smart"phone?


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On 13-10-15-Tue 2:43 PM, Shawn Lesniak wrote:
> On 2013-10-13 22:49, sudo-discuss-request at lists.sudoroom.org wrote:
>> Lastly, shot-spotters shouldn't be controversial, even among those of us
>> who support the personal rights interpretation of the 2nd Amendment.  A
>> gunshot on a city street means one of two things: a criminal has just
>> shot a victim, or a criminal's would-be victim has just shot their
>> attacker in self-defense.  Either of those things merits getting the
>> police and paramedics on the scene, pronto. 
> Shotspotters are microphones.  They can capture other sounds and it is
> not clear how many other sounds and how long those sounds are retained.
>  Their use would be less controversial if they were an oracle that just
> spit out 4 .40 caliber rounds were fired at the intersection of Grand
> and Broadway at 23:12:32 (15 seconds ago) instead of capturing any audio
> at all.
>
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