Tyler Durden at www.zerohedge.com just posted an article about a new bill making its way through the New York legislature. This law would allow police to plug drivers' phones into tablet-like devices (called "textalyzers"), following traffic "incidents" (broken tail light, suspicious activity, etc?).
The printout would show exactly what the driver was doing, and when. Under the guise of determining if the driver was texting while driving, which is illegal in New York, it would however also include every "click, tap, or swipe, it would even know what apps you were using".
In my experience, safety and convenience are the two main pretenses used by the government to strip away our freedoms. In addition, although I'm not a "techie" I have to wonder how long until the technology exists, or if it already does, to be able to do this remotely without having to plug in the "textalyzer".
If this bill passes, it will be interesting to see how long until other states also pass similar legislation.
Steem on, my friends!
Pretty sure that this kind of monitoring is not actually a news. Everyday we are being monitored by different parties but just we do not know about it. Security issues have long been the problems that come along with technological development. It's the responsibilities of the governments in different countries to think about this issue seriously!
That's really bad ... everything about privacy is getting worse and worse
That will be bad ... if it become to a law.
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Everything under the guise of safety and security. It's an ongoing battle, with the phones and the tech though it's just a new venue for the battle. STEEM on freedom fighters
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