Facts
1) Issues of the Constitution come into play - for example, would it be legal for the police to place a GPS on the bottom of a suspect's car (without his/her permission) and track him/her? (4th amendment - search and seizure)
2) There were (are?) Google vans driving down streets and taking pictures.... (Weird...)
3) There was a heat sensor that determined that one area of a certain man's house was warmer than the rest so the police searched his house (after getting a warrant).
4) If German intelligence people find information that is not necessarily terrorism-related (eg adultery), they cannot report it to the police.
5) The Patriot Act expanded the ability of the government to seize any data as long as it is relevant to a terrorist investigation.
6) However, the Patriot Act has been used for obtaining information about illegal immigration and non-terrorist-related things.
7) There is a type of MRI that has been gaining attention for scanning which part of brain being lit up during certain thoughts. (fMRIs)
8) Overactive amygdala - lock them up. predisposition to violence.
9) There was a woman who was fired for a certain picture on her MySpace. Her 1st amendment rights were ruled to be not violated.
10) Twitter was recently pressured to remove pro-Taliban tweets.
Questions
1) Could this possibly grow to be a sort of "Big Brother" sort of society?
2) Was it legal for Lower Merion to do what they did with the laptops a few years ago? How did they justify that?
3) Might there be future amendments to the Constitution concerning internet privacy?
4) Could colleges and schools go through a person's Facebook/MySpace/other social networking sites and find a picture that would justify them to reject that person/suspend them/fire them? Especially if everything is set to private?
5) What precautions are used to make sure people's information will not get out?
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