http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/21/nspy121.xml
This is a very interesting article that I read. This article deals with the UK traffic systems and relying the information to other countries throughout the world, including the United States. The camera's take live video of cars and traffic in the Britan and the EU. These camera's then are able to record; registration, and images of the owners. This was hiden from the British parilament until just recently that the information was being allowed to be viewed by other countries. This deals with terrorism, because the information that is sent to the U.S. is placed in computer systems for there "data mining", which is used to try and predict patterns of terrorist. The article deals with are class the last week dealing with civil liberities. Is this crossing the line? Recording peoples images and sending there informations to other countries would that be a price of giving up liberities to possibly find patterns? I say yes. This is because its just camera video that people don't know they are being watched. It also can help data mining which can possibly stop a terrorist attack.
This is my last post! please let me know what everyone thinks about this article! I had a great year, I hope all of you did too!
And THank You Professor Payne for all the knowledge that you have taught me this year.
Austin Conners
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Does parliament have to be included in surveillance decisions? This sounds like a class discussion we had not too long ago on the advantages and disadvantages of keeping information secret. I believe Heymann was advocating near-transparency, while such a policy has some obvious weaknesses. Either way, I doubt other EU members were excited to hear about their information being shared by the UK government. I think this policy is nice for the United States and a possible security problem for other European countries.
I read this article and was frustrated at the US policy on counter-terrorism. I see the US as emerging as a totalitarian regime in the world anarchy.
I am not saying that the US should give up its attempts to increase its security, but it has to understand that certain countries and people value their civil liberties more than their perception of security.
Also this secrecy is identical to the affairs of the secret police in Germany during the Nazi rule. As Heyman suggests, the government should adopt more transparency, but again no one likes to work knowing that someone is continously spying on them.
Please count this for the week ending 4/20.
I think that this really invades on peopled civil liberties. Even though it might seem like it doesn't hurt anyone to take pictures and record peoples auto movements it does infringe on their right to privacy. I can understand the UK people with being upset that this information is also being passed out to other countries no matter how democratic they might be.
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