Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations
Kim Zetter, wired.com

Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations. The systems are raising a number of privacy…

Another step towards increased governmental control…

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    Scary

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    and since it’s on public transport, it handily only monitors the poor. yay capitialism

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    1984 is now.

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    Here’s my question: Does the government have the authority to install whatever surveillance devices they so choose on...

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    tell me how this makes us safer?

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