Mass Surveillance Was Fine Until Immigration Law Was Enforced
amuse – American cities did not stumble accidentally into mass surveillance. They chose it. Over the past decade, thousands of municipalities quietly installed automated license plate reader systems that record, store, and analyze the daily movements of ordinary people. They did so deliberately, with minimal public debate, and with striking indifference to the constitutional implications.
This architecture was celebrated as modern, data-driven, and compassionate. It was defended as the price of safety. Privacy objections were waved aside as abstract or paranoid. The public was assured that responsible officials would use the tools wisely. That confidence collapsed the moment enforcement priorities changed. Continue reading
Mark Cromer – As the nation’s Great Cities continue to convulse under the immigration sweeps and raids that are now being carried out by multi-agency federal taskforces, the resulting hysteria has produced the same stale fruit that’s invariably set upon the American table when it comes to the fate of illegal immigrants.