Friday, October 16, 2026

The Panopticon

If you use the Mapquest app on your phone, they now have a layer that will show you the location of surveillance cameras.

There are a lot more in my area than I thought that there were. I don't know if the other apps do.

Here's a question to ask: How would people feel about these cameras if they put them outside of places that have some political or freedom significance? Bookstores? Family planning clinics? gunshops? liquor stores? Sexual-aids stores? For you know that somebody would abuse the data generated. Like some cop in Texas tracking who went into a Planned Parenthood clinic in Boston to see if he can catch anyone from Texas doing that.

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