Originally Posted by tigermtb

That dutch 'green levy' is interesting... but keep in mind the country is extremely small.

The Big Brother thing has been portrayed in so many movies, books, etc I think people have almost accepted the idea. I agree there's a fine line between protecting kids (and adults for that matter) against everything -- but when does it become invasion of privacy, who knows.

Its like Google storing everything you ever search for... collectively a profile of "you" that could be embarassingly dangerous depending on how much midget porn you're looking up.

Then there's the facial recognition software .. tagging on facebook.. things like that. Will be possible to do a search and pull up all kinds of photos of you -- that other people took and you have no knowledge of.

This stuff is already active, its just a matter of putting it all together that's scary.