If you live in any large American city, chances are that you are being watched as you move about. Do you know who is watching you today? Bruce Schneier asks if you know who is watching them watching you.
Two council CCTV camera operators have been jailed for spying on a naked woman in her own home.
We face two threats in this era of internal and external security threats. One is from external fanatics bent on imposing their worldview on everyone else. The second is from internal fanatics bent on exposing all of us to their scrutiny and judgement at will.
It’s a new take on Scylla and Charybdis. Look around. Who is behind that camera watching you?
In an era of exponentially powerful technology, culture clashes and government growth blended with an often apathetic and self-indulgent voting public, it will be interesting to see where we journey here on Planet Earth. Someone out there must be building the new Noah’s Ark…if it’s you, e-mail me.