Does anyone need more proof of humanity's fundamental stupidity?
As if a surveillance state offers more citizen security. Quite the opposite. The terrorists just end up in another place: within the state apparatus. And that's exactly what's being demanded here. Total surveillance of public spaces. A standard presumption of guilt for all citizens - anyone walking around in public, using public transport, or standing in public places is fundamentally suspect from the start. When will the first person be convicted because the guardians of the public accuse them? How many hidden, invisible witnesses will soon exist for our actions in public, whose statements and claims we can no longer refute because they're invisible and uncontrollable to us?
We've already experienced attacks on private space through Schily and associates. I definitely don't feel any safer because of all this nonsense...
Brave new world. We ourselves are building our 1984...
At heise online news you'll find the original article.