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Camera port
Jan. 22nd, 2003 11:00 amDespite his best efforts, they installed a camera port in his office.
They were everywhere now, unavoidable unless you went off the grid completely, out in the the north wilds of Canada, or rainforests in South America somewhere. But in cities and towns across the United States, the camera ports were already installed, allowing the myriad floating cameras to download and recharge whenever they needed to. There had been laws, back when the technology was new, to keep the cameras only in public places, using them as another kind of policebot on the beat. But security became the highest priority, and the technology improved rapidly with governmental support. Now the ports were everywhere. Privacy could no longer be counted on, though some hoped that the sheer quantity of information would keep their own lives as private as they had been before.
He wondered how likely it was that a camera would be by to use his office port. Would they be more frequent now? Was the government commissioning more of them now that there was pretty much complete port coverage? He wasn't sure, and looking for that information online might be a trigger for more attention than he'd like.
He didn't know how long he could go on living life in the increasingly-transparent fishbowl his world was becoming.
They were everywhere now, unavoidable unless you went off the grid completely, out in the the north wilds of Canada, or rainforests in South America somewhere. But in cities and towns across the United States, the camera ports were already installed, allowing the myriad floating cameras to download and recharge whenever they needed to. There had been laws, back when the technology was new, to keep the cameras only in public places, using them as another kind of policebot on the beat. But security became the highest priority, and the technology improved rapidly with governmental support. Now the ports were everywhere. Privacy could no longer be counted on, though some hoped that the sheer quantity of information would keep their own lives as private as they had been before.
He wondered how likely it was that a camera would be by to use his office port. Would they be more frequent now? Was the government commissioning more of them now that there was pretty much complete port coverage? He wasn't sure, and looking for that information online might be a trigger for more attention than he'd like.
He didn't know how long he could go on living life in the increasingly-transparent fishbowl his world was becoming.