[hahainternet]

Allow me to also tell you a true story.

A woman was found stabbed to death outside her house, everyone who would have any reason to mean her harm had a reliable alibi.

Until the CCTV footage was analysed properly, and a suspicious car was found to have unique identifying marks. Further research of phone records revealed that in fact her husband was the primary architect of her murder and had orchestrated it with others.

CCTV was pivotal in detection and conviction. Nobody gives a shit about your phone or your tablet. People's lives matter, and one murderer caught is worth a thousand fines which would be overturned on appeal.

[ffadfaafdf]

^ The mentality that brought us the security theater at the TSA, the incredibly invasive surveillance of the internet by simply collecting everything on it, and continued reduction of personal rights in favor of "security". Enjoy your fallacious arguments folks: hasty generalization, cherry picking, anecdotes, appeals to emotion and fear; some of them shown in the parent comment, ... until you wake up.

[scrollaway]

I take it you've never heard the quote "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"?

Or have you heard it and are merely blind to how you are giving up essential liberty to purchase little temporary safety? "One good thing is worth a thousand bad things". How about that. I've never heard someone so elegantly crap all over their own argument.

[noonespecial]

>People's lives matter, and one murderer caught is worth a thousand fines which would be overturned on appeal.

You do know that these "appeals" aren't free, right? Or guaranteed. If you happen to be of a paler complexion and of modest means, they can be had for the low, low cost of merely your job and everything you have. If you happen to be a poor minority, however...

[ctz]

An appeal is free, merely filling in a form and waiting for the PCN adjudicator to make a judgement.

[coldtea]

Nobody in power gives a shit about that woman. Having the society at large contained and docile is what matters.