{"id":6803,"date":"2012-03-10T10:27:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T10:27:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T10:27:18","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6803","title":{"rendered":"Hartford Courant: “Feel Like You’re Being Watched? It’s Because You Are”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hartford Courant: Feel Like You’re Being Watched? It’s Because You Are<\/a> by David McGuire:<\/p>\n

Imagine a government that can track everyone, all the time, with license plate scanners, cellphone signals and networks of cameras mounted on buildings, traffic lights \u2014 even flying drones.<\/p>\n

You don’t have to imagine. Law enforcement agencies in the United States already use these technologies and are starting to collect, indiscriminately and on a massive scale, data on the movements and associations of innocent Americans. It’s happening everywhere, including Connecticut.<\/p>\n

As the surveillance state expands, it is rapidly developing the capacity to expose your whole life, the way an airport scanner exposes your body. The damage to privacy and constitutional protections is incalculable. The potential for abuse is staggering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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