Lower Merion School District now claims their spycams were only activated if a laptop was lost or stolen. How does this fit with the use of a picture from one of these as evidence of student misbehavior at home? When did we cede the right to discipline children at home to the school district anyway? This whole affair reeks of totalitarianism.

It is reported that MP in charge of the program I reported on yesterday denies that anyone is putting CCTV into people's home. I've looked into it further and it seems that the wealth of reports trace back to a single newspaper article. The denial is made in an unverified Twitter feed. It's so difficult to get information on this side of the ( Read more... )

When the Brits disarmed their citizenry a decade ago I warned that we would see further erosions of the rights of the people there. However, even your pessimistic author has been stunned at the rapidity with which this has happened. Freedom of speech has been but a memory for a while now. Pervasive public surveillance is several years old. Even ( Read more... )