http://paulsgraham.ca/2008/01/09/is-canada-joining-the-surveillance-societies-of-the-world/ Communications, politics, peace and justice Sun, 27 May 2012 12:57:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paulsgraham.ca/2008/01/09/is-canada-joining-the-surveillance-societies-of-the-world/#comment-32 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:21:04 +0000 http://paulsgraham.ca/2008/01/09/is-canada-joining-the-surveillance-societies-of-the-world/#comment-32 For some people surveillance equals security. For example, the Toronto Transit Commission is seeking federal funding for security cameras under the Transit-Secure program (http://tinyurl.com/22c2a7). It’s simply assumed that cameras will help, although even the security minded will admit cameras don’t really prevent incidents (http://tinyurl.com/yo8h4d). It turns out that cameras aren’t that useful as evidence either (http://tinyurl.com/yo9e7c).

]]> http://paulsgraham.ca/2008/01/09/is-canada-joining-the-surveillance-societies-of-the-world/#comment-31 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:50:41 +0000 http://paulsgraham.ca/2008/01/09/is-canada-joining-the-surveillance-societies-of-the-world/#comment-31 I almost got a migraine on the bus to work today where I, innocently looking out the window of course, got ‘strobed’ by red light cameras going flash wild for some reason. Retina scans?

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