Technology and the invasion of privacy and its effects onthe criminal
justice system over
the last 100 years
Will searching the internet for more than 5 hours on this topic I found a
quote that is very
appropriate it says;
Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become
available to the
government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the
government, by
means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure
in court of
what is whispered in the closet.
US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandies, 1928
If Justice Brandeis could see the advances in technology, he would realize
just how
prophetic his statement is. He would also be appalled by the new
surveillance technologies
that go far beyond his wildest dreams. Now that the cold war is over,
bureaucracy has
little do but track us from the cradle to the grave, from your bank accounts
to the
bedroom. Several of the technologies created by the defense dept.......
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