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Originally Posted by stuartj
Imagine if a Govt mandated that citizens must at all times carry an electronic device that could locate, record, film, track them, record all their contacts and that it would store all this data in perpetuity for access at any time. Luckily these devices have angry birds so we don't mind.
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Nobody has to
mandate anything...people have no problem spending a good chunk of their own money to get one of these things and they're more than willing to keep it with them at all times. Over 75% of the US adult population already has a smartphone...and before too long, it'll be closer to 100%.
An older Russian engineer that I once worked with had a hard time getting his head around all this passion for connectivity and lack of concern for privacy. He told me that, back in the day, the KGB dedicated untold amounts of resources to keep track of citizens in the old USSR and would've LOVED having things like smartphones, Google, Facebook, etc. around during the cold war days.