http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15730499
This is getting to be something of an issue of human rights, I feel; all the more dangerous because it has crept in unannounced. After all, it seems so useful and innocuous to know where your friends are (not to me but I'm one of those who rapidly starting to reject the digital 'fusion' age). But when the civil control arm of the government can do the same thing to everyone, for whatever reason, then that takes on a different shade.
If the only options are not to have one or be surveilled wherever I go, then I choose not to have one. That's not because I have anything to hide but because I find it objectionable to be tracked at every turn - it's a power that is far too open to abuse. Experience has taught us that if something can be abused then it will be abused.
This is getting to be something of an issue of human rights, I feel; all the more dangerous because it has crept in unannounced. After all, it seems so useful and innocuous to know where your friends are (not to me but I'm one of those who rapidly starting to reject the digital 'fusion' age). But when the civil control arm of the government can do the same thing to everyone, for whatever reason, then that takes on a different shade.
If the only options are not to have one or be surveilled wherever I go, then I choose not to have one. That's not because I have anything to hide but because I find it objectionable to be tracked at every turn - it's a power that is far too open to abuse. Experience has taught us that if something can be abused then it will be abused.