“If the application determines that the caller or the call has violated the law, the application may notify the appropriate law enforcement agency” [More]Well that'll generate a lot of garbage.
I guess as long as the crematoriums pay for carbon credits...
[Via Florida Guy]
Once upon a time any prosecutions resulting from such a thing would have no chance to hold up in court. That pesky part of the 6th amendment that protects the accused's right "to be confronted with the witnesses against him" would appear to make something like this against the supreme law of the land. But these days we get tickets for running red lights because an automatic camera took our picture. Or (IIRC) speeding tickets issued on the basis of a camera with radar. Obviously this is going to fly. Guess we'll have to use VOIP and encrypt all our phone calls. It won't be unbreakable but it should keep our phone conversations nominally secure until the next generation of computer processors is able to crack the code, decrypt and monitor conversations in real time.
ReplyDeleteI am concerned that this same software can monitor conversations for political content. What's to stop them from monitoring the political content of our calls and disconnecting any time somebody talks about a "disallowed" subject? I guess part of the reason 1984 is taking until 2017 or later is the wait for technology to make it feasible.