Quote: "Why isn't each Government employee assigned a group of innocents to monitor 24/7? We could be embedded with a chip of some sorts and have cameras around our homes and outside... Companies could also take part in the additional monitoring..."

That seems to be the way things are headed, Aenox! In my lighter moments, I wonder about the effects of so-called "Reality-TV" on our perceptions of cameras. Are we being conditioned to regard them as unintrusive, normal?

If an ISP, in cooperation with a marketing information firm, offered free Internet service in exchange for your accepting the installation of a camera so you could be observed while using the Net, your facial expressions analyzed to determine your reaction to specific web pages and advertisments, would they have any takers? You bet!

If the courts gave problematic parents a choice - either give up your child to the state, or let us install cameras in the house to observe your interaction with the child, so as to better protect the child, would the parent agree? Would society stand for this? You bet!

Cameras in school classrooms to monitor for intruders and to protect the children and teacher from disruptive and unruly students?

The possibilities are endless!

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