NTSB Wants Black Boxes in Passenger Vehicles

What does and doesn't work is difficult to predict. A nearer example is the
former GDR (communist East Germany). They collected huge amounts of info on
the population through informers and the like, and many (most) people had a
Stasi file. In the end they could not do much with it because there was too
much, including recording where people went shopping and the like.

DAS
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"Ted Mittelstaedt" > wrote in message
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[...]
> Eventually you got so many cameras that it is impossible for any
> government agency to track it and the surveillance becomes completely
> worthless - unless a crime is committed and the survelliance has been
> [...]

> What people like you don't seem to understand is that 1984 was a real
> crock of **** when it came to the bugs in people's rooms. If a
> government,
> totalitarian or not, wants to spy on it's citizens it does so by getting
> other
> citizens to do the spying work.
>
> Nazi Germany knew this well. They didn't have all this high tech
> survelliance
> camera crap. What they did is simply control the media and propagandize
> the populace into doing their spying for them. And this is happening
> today.
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