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Saturday February 18 2006
Watching them watching me
by Brian Micklethwait

Last night, after a most agreeable and advantageous dinner with a friend, I went home on a bus, in which there was a television screen with pictures of all us passengers, and I took some photos of myself taking photos of myself.

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More and more of our lives are now spent as film extras.  What was interesting about this particular surveillance system is that they wanted us all to know that we were being surveilled.  Which, despite what a Samizdatista like me is supposed to think, I perfectly understand.  The driver can see everything.  And for lots of passengers, that’s reassuring rather than any sort of threat.

That The Government gets to watch all of this, in the unlikely event that any of it wants to, is really not, for most people, a problem.  That’s what governments are supposed to do.  Key an eye on things.

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