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The biggest problem with the 'OK, let me see your credit card statements' retort is that, well, of course they don't want you to see stuff.

The biggest problem with the 'OK, let me see your credit card statements' retort is that, well, of course they don't want you to see stuff. It's all too easy to say that the government is impartial, composed of perfect human beings that follow the rules, and that the rules are reinforced by lots of checks and balances. Most people don't realize that their neighbors, friends, ex-spouses, etc. could be the ones watching them. But even if the argument is not humans watching you, but computers, what happens when you say "terraces" on the phone and the computer algorithm transcribes it as "terrorists"? Or if you look up "bomb making", out of curiosity, using Google, and get permanently flagged as a potential suspect in every bombing from now on? You know you are not a criminal, but these systems make it so ridiculously easy to provide evidence that any one person committed any one crime.

Posted by IgorPartola on Aug 5, 2014, 5:17 PM

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The biggest problem with the 'OK, let me see your credit card statements' retort is that, well, of course they don't want you to see stuff.

IgorPartolaAug 5, 2014, 5:17 PM

The biggest problem with the 'OK, let me see your credit card statements' retort is that, well, of course they don't want you to see stuff. It's all too easy to say that the government is impartial, composed of perfect human beings that follow the rules, and that the rules are reinforced by lots of checks and balances. Most people don't realize that their neighbors, friends, ex-spouses, etc. could be the ones watching them. But even if the argument is not humans watching you, but computers, what happens when you say "terraces" on the phone and the computer algorithm transcribes it as "terrorists"? Or if you look up "bomb making", out of curiosity, using Google, and get permanently flagged as a potential suspect in every bombing from now on? You know you are not a criminal, but these systems make it so ridiculously easy to provide evidence that any one person committed any one crime.

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