BBO...Big Brother Outrageous

No doubt next year they will want to see your "PASSPORT" before they let you in the town. Nothing to worry about as long as you fit their profile of acceptable persons.

We have stayed in Tiburon a couple of times. It's a lovely place. Nice hotel (Tiburon Lodge), several good restaurants, and views of the bay that just don't quit, and you can take a great ferry ride to spend the day in San Francisco.

We're going to miss it.

Not only do we have unsafe neighborhoods, now it looks like we have towns to avoid also??

Now here's the question....

How's this any different than posting a cop, or security guard for that matter, at the city limits, or having one drive around town, one that happens to be writing down licence plates?

It may seem creepy cause its a new approach, but its not any different than what goes on already. WHen you're out in public, the expectation of privacy is greatly reduced.....wether its a cop or a camera or a security guard keeping track of people coming and going....

I'm not saying i realy LIKE the idea, but as long as they sit on the info till there's a crime to solve, i can't see complaining about it much...

These will be in higher demand

http://www.phantomplate.com/photoshield.html

I;ve heard rumors that they don't work.
Of course, that doesnt mean they dont...
and of course, the fact they're ADVERTISED to work also does not mean they work

In my opinion they work just fine.

These politicians are paranoid. That is ridiculous. Do what I say not what I do....

Everyone want to know everyone.

The problem is this could be used in a bad way to control the movement of people.

Imagine if the Nazi's in WWII could have the record of every single person who went out in public, where they went, and when. This information by itself is not harmful, but could be put to misuse in a great way.

What if in the future some politician decides that gay people frequent a certain area, and use this information to find who is gay, and arrest them for being gay?

Sounds far fetched, but this is why we want to have the freedom to travel in the first place, so that nothing like this could remotely happen.

...that wants to photograph every car's license plate as it crosses the bridge into that town, to ferret out crooks they say.

I'm all for law and order, and catching bad guys. But, if you look at the history of the world, just in the 20th century, you see that the greatest threat to freedom always has come from one's own government. Stalin and Hitler were at the top of the list, butPol Pot and Idi Amin are obvious examples too. And FDR, for all his greatness, had the Japanese-American internment camps, and Italian-Americans arrested and imprisoned without ever being charged with anything.

Gathering data is one thing when it will ostensibly be put to good use. But with so many idiots in D.C. and state legislative bodies now, it's how it gets to put use that creates so much risk to freedom.

GC

Indeed, thats a problem. BUt that type of thing was done without, to my knowledge, in the SOviet Union and Nazi Germany, without photographing every car that came and went. I'm not convinced adding cameras to the equation is the problem.

Admittedly a little crrepy though, still...