{"id":39720,"date":"2015-07-11T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=39720"},"modified":"2015-07-11T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T20:59:38","slug":"do-you-support-the-time-traveling-technology-that-makes-us-more-safe-less-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/do-you-support-the-time-traveling-technology-that-makes-us-more-safe-less-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Support the Time-Traveling Technology that Makes Us More Safe, Less Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in the past, I\u2019m a big fan of the podcast Radiolab. Recently, they ran a story called \u201cEye in the Sky<\/a>\u201d that got me to think quite differently about government surveillance. But I\u2019ll get to the podcast in a moment as I want to start out with a no-brainer, that it\u2019s no secret that the government watches us, tracks us and, in some cases, spies on us. Yet to the degree that it does, and to the degree that we allow it to is something that I don\u2019t think many of us often contemplate.<\/p>\n

Even after the Edward Snowden disclosures <\/a>the outrage about extraconstitutional government intrusion into the private lives of its citizens was short-lived and somewhat muted. We were apathetic when we should have been irate. We should have demanded change. But we didn\u2019t. Instead, the powers that be paid us some lip-service about increasing transparency and holding the NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS, etc., accountable for their actions. Of course, none of that happened.<\/p>\n

What we got instead were some trivial adjustments <\/a>to the \u201cPatriot Act,\u201d recently, that in no way change, reduce or curtail the government\u2019s ability to spy on us. Congress had the nerve \u2014 in true Orwellian fashion \u2014 to call those adjustments the \u201cUSA Freedom Act<\/a>,\u201d as if we are somehow more free or better off following its enactment on June 2, 2015.<\/p>\n

No we are not better off. Just like under the Patriot Act, under the USA Freedom Act the government will still be allowed to collect telecommunication metadata on all of us. The only real difference is that now the phone companies will hold on to the metadata instead of the NSA. But the NSA will still have all the access it wants to that data. And that\u2019s the important point after all. It\u2019s not about who holds onto the data, but who has access to it.<\/p>\n

Another inconsequential change is that when the government requests data from phone companies, it will only be able to store it for eighteen months instead of the five years allotted under the Patriot Act. Of course, if the government decides you\u2019re a person of interest, all bets are off. You\u2019re on the watch list.<\/p>\n

But even supposing for a moment that these changes would somehow make a difference, the truth is that there is no way to tell if the government is actually keeping its promise on them. That\u2019s because we rely on an inept Congress and a secret FISA court<\/a> that pretty much rubber stamps every surveillance request made by the NSA, FBI, CIA. Yes, the word \u201csecret\u201d is not an exaggeration, as all FISA\u2019s hearings are closed to the public. To put it mildly, we\u2019re screwed. And our essential liberties and freedoms have never been in more jeopardy than they are today.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s with that thought in mind that I circle back to the Radiolab podcast I recently listened to. Because, if you thought somehow things were going to get better in terms of government surveillance, you could\u2019t be more wrong. Technology is constantly changing the game, making it easier for the government agents to monitor the lives of Americans, and there\u2019s no way to put the genie back in the bottle. Here\u2019s the blurb from the podcast (which I encourage you to listen to):<\/p>\n

Ross McNutt has a superpower \u2014 he can zoom in on everyday life, then rewind and fast-forward to solve crimes in a shutter-flash. But should he?<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an idea. With a small plane and a 44 mega-pixel camera, they figured out how to watch an entire city all at once, all day long. Whenever a bomb detonated, they could zoom onto that spot and then, because this eye in the sky had been there all along, they could scroll back in time and see – literally see – who planted it. After the war, Ross McNutt retired from the airforce, and brought this technology back home with him. Manoush Zomorodi and Alex Goldmark from the podcast \u201cNote to Self\u201d give us the low-down on Ross\u2019s unique brand of persistent surveillance, from Juarez, Mexico to Dayton, Ohio. Then, once we realize what we can do, we wonder whether we should.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s only a matter of time before wide swaths of the public begin supporting the idea of constant government drone surveillance on U.S. soil (I could see certain Democratic politicians\u00a0pushing it right now, e.g. Hillary). The pitch of a \u201csafer\u201d albeit more closely monitored society is hard to resist, especially to those who don\u2019t believe they are responsible for their own safety — which I’m afraid to admit is the prevailing mindset in this country (only 1 in 3 of us own firearms<\/a>). \u00a0So, if you ask me, it won’t be long\u00a0before\u00a0we are all living under and eye in the sky. \u00a0 The question is what happens then? What happens to those of us who exercise our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms? What happens to those of us who are critical of the government?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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