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risk and the downstream harms.

Their were rumours that a bank had done it

to a cancer

registry that they had taken a Kansas registry

crossed it

with names of people who are in their bank

and then tweaked

the creditworthiness of the people if they

had cancer.

Some day when all of our products and all

other

products have instead of a bar code they'll

have a tiny RFID tag on them we will be able

to

keep track of those products in people's homes.

And their proposal was that a smart refrigerator

would actually have an RFID reader

in the fridge every product that you put in

the refrigerator from the milk to the

you know, the cream cheese to the hot dogs

would all have an RFID tag added to

them in their packaging and so the refrigerator

would actually know it's contents.

There are plans afoot to actually monitor

your garbage.

Every time you throw something into the trash

can the trash can would

actually be equipped with an RFID reader and

would monitor what you do.

Are you throwing into the right trash can?

Is this a recyclable item that you are throwing

into the regular household trash?

How long did it take you to consume that item?

How long was it in your home before you threw

it away?

The idea that we would be at the point where

everyone will be watching every move.

And it would be tied into the television,

so we would have personalized advertising.

We would have HMO's for example, your health

insurer keeping tabs

on you know, who's eating Hagen-Dazs and

how much green leafy

vegetables is this family consuming because

they're literally

monitoring what happens in in your house through

your refrigerator.

You know some would say it opens up great

opportunities to improve

public health other people would say well

it opens up super

horrifying opportunities for Big Brother to

be right there in

your refrigerator and sitting at your dinner

table with you.

With rising technology and with the motivating

forces from the government level to push

that technology in the direction of the capability

of monitoring human activity, with that

technology emerging it's very frightening

because it means that totalitarian regimes

will

very soon indeed have the power to control

and monitor every human being on the planet.

People working in major office buildings have

an access

pass, a badge that they use to get into the

office.

Every time you scan that to get into the building

you're

revealing what time you got there what time

you left.

Those records have actually been used by employers

to determine whether

someone was claiming sick leave when they

weren't really sick.

The reasons for surveillance and the need

for

better surveillance systems are compelling.

If you want to keep track of your pets or

children, livestock

or possessions you can now put ID tracking

devices on them.

If you want to make sure employees are working

the way they should you can now monitor them.

If you want to protect citizens from thieves,

con artists,

drug dealers, hate mongers, paedophiles, terrorist

and basically anyone and everyone who's a

threat to

society you can now track monitor and scrutinize

them.

If you can save lives and protect property

why wouldn't you?

And if you yourself are engaged in unsocial

or illegal

actions your rights to privacy should be taken

away.

Those are compelling arguments but is it right?

And are only the bad guys being watched Hey

honey what's up?

Was that tonight?

Oh...

Well we need to be there.

Yeah.

I'll try and get home early.

Alright, I love you.

Bye, bye.

Whenever people say: If you aren't doing anything

wrong why do you care if people watch you,

I kind

of turn that around and say if I'm not doing

anything

wrong then you have no business watching me.

President Bush, Attorney General Gonzales

and the head of the NSA all admitted

that well the Times was right that the NSA

had been spying on Americans without

a warrant required by law, required by the

Constitution and required by federal

wiretapping law and that they'd being doing

this for a number of years.

There used to be a joke you know, we're from

the

NSA we read your email so that you don't have

to.

All of our phone calls are now processed essentially

by computers in

the digital form and so wiretapping a phone

call is just a matter of

telling some of those devices to remember

or to divert some of those bits

rather than necessarily physically clipping

anything on to anything.

So as you can imagine it's very cheap and

very straightforward.

You know when I turn it on to make a call

then I'm going to shut it off.

It's just like the old handset telephone that

I have

in my house except I've been walking around

with it.

Well it isn't, because first of all when you

have it on it's

constantly telling the telephone company where

you are.

It notifies the nearby cell phone towers whether

you're talking on it or not, what your

location is because that's how the phone company

knows where to root your incoming calls.

It doesn't try every cell phone tower in the

world it has a constantly updated

record of where the telephone is and that

data is stored and can be used somehow.

The thing is a location device as well as

a communication

device well fine but I'm going to leave it

off all the time...

Well you know it's really not a telephone

it's really a computer connected

to a radio transmitter and receiver a microphone

and a speaker.

And the computer can make the radio transmitter

and receiver, microphone and loudspeaker act

kind of the way a telephone does but it can

make it do all kinds of other things as well.

These devices can actually be used by appropriately

authorized government officials to turn the

cell phone

into a kind of roving bug, so that when you

press the

power button and you think you're turning

the telephone

off you're actually turning the microphone

on and the

radio transmitter on so that the conversation

and

whatever noise is ambient around where the

telephone

is is being sent back to FBI headquarters

or wherever.

A knife is a piece of technology, now a knife

used in

a bar fight to carve somebody up is a terrible

thing.

That same knife can be used to perform an

emergency appendectomy

and save someone's life is a very good thing

and without it

you couldn't save that person's life The knife

neither serves

good or evil it's just a knife this is how

technology works.

In addition to the Big Brother phenomenon

which is

definitely out there there's all this little

brotherism.

You know there are the teenagers with the

cell phones who take embarrassing pictures

of themselves, of their friends and so on

and I say did you ever lose your cell phone?

You say I've lost a cell phone three or four

times.

Did the pictures come back to the cell phone?

Well yeah the pictures come back to the cell

phone, well

where did the pictures come back to the cell

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