I’ve gotten a lot of great responses to my question below about David Simon’s piece. The only problem is that there are so many good ones it’s a little hard to decide which ones to publish. I’d say they range more somewhat more pro-Simon than anti-. But that’s probably at least somewhat because of how I framed the question.
As I noted, I’m still trying to firm up my take on all this. My gut reaction makes me a surveillance skeptic skeptic, as it were. It is hard for me to get past the mix of hysteria and technological illiteracy. At the same time, it’s hard to evaluate the ‘robust’ privacy protections built into the system when we don’t have any idea what they are.
Please keep the emails coming. And if you didn’t see the post below, I’m looking for responses to this post.
