QueeneMUSE@aol.com wrote:
>
> People are assumng something that I can't assume, which is that in a totally
> transparent, surveillanced society that courts would exist in the way they do
> now.
>
> I think they'd be nearly obsolete.
>
> If every act was archived, every action known by all, prosecutors, lawyers
> and judges would have to go the way of the dodo.For this reason alone, it
> couldn't happen, since lawyers need jobs as much as criminals do.
>
> The way it is today, these kinds of arguments find wieght. When everything is
> known what good will lying or contesting do?
With such technology comes the technology to counterfeit surveillance
data.
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