“And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, ‘God . . . and hide thyself . . .'” (1 Kings 17:2-3).
If God called His prophet to hide from a tyrant, how much more do good men need to hide from a government of wolves?
The trend in London is for cops to put up facial recognition cameras around the city to capture the bad guys. The Metropolitan Police said each system will have its own “watch list” made up of images of criminals wanted for serious and violent offenses.” (Bloomberg – 1/24/2020)
While promoters of the plan say it will help them find missing children, the potential for abuse of privacy rights is as certain as owls hooting at night.
This dystopian technology empowers the surveillance state to abuse its powers by monitoring the movements of any citizen.
There is no freedom when nothing is private and everything is public.
The Word of God commands the people to not trust in princes (government) (Psalm 118:9) because government can not be trusted to limit its power for just purposes.
While the people must watch the government, society is not better off with the five eyes of the police state staring at our navel.
Spy technology has a chilling effect on privacy rights.
God did not make us to live like fish in a bowl.
Freedom includes freedom from a Peeping Tom surveillance State addicted to gawking at the naked movement of its people with no evidence of wrongdoing.
Resist, resist, resist.
Storm Brooks 1/25/2020
Breitbart 1-27-2020
Amazon’s Alexa Devices Are Recording Your Life – and People Keep Buying Them
The Intercept 1-28-2020
“The rise of all-seeing smart camera networks is an alarming development that threatens civil rights and liberties throughout the world. Law enforcement agencies have a long history of using surveillance against marginalized communities, and studies show surveillance chills freedom of expression — ill effects that could spread as camera networks grow larger and more sophisticated.
Behavior recognition includes video analytics capabilities like fight detection, emotion recognition, fall detection, loitering, dog walking, jaywalking, toll fare evasion, and even lie detection.
Object recognition can recognize faces, animals, cars, weapons, fires, and other things, as well as human characteristics like gender, age, and hair color.
Anomalous or unusual behavior detection works by recording a fixed area for a period of time — say, 30 days — and determining “normal” behavior for that scene. If the camera sees something unusual — say, a person running down a street at 3:00 a.m. — it will flag the incident for attention.”
The Hill 1-28-2020
“The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent agency, is coming under increasing pressure to recommend the federal government stop using facial recognition.
Forty groups, led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, sent a letter Monday to the agency calling for the suspension of facial recognition systems “pending further review.”
“The rapid and unregulated deployment of facial recognition poses a direct threat to ‘the precious liberties that are vital to our way of life,'” the advocacy groups wrote.”
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