Do you feel safer knowing our government is watching our every move?

It does not make me feel safe at all. I'm glad I don't have a computer with a built in camera. If someday all computers have built in cameras just like cellphones do, then I would find a way to disable the camera.

LIBERTY has to have pirvacy to for liberty to work. If they want to have cameras on us.. I think we need cameras in the white house.. to see everything they DO. We should also have cameras at the Bilderberg.. and CFR meetings... but NO they keep those Private.. how wonderful...

In a way, it's good because they've caught a lot of criminals just because they had them committing their crimes on tape. That makes me feel safer! In a way, it takes away from our privacy. But I would rather have that than a bunch of criminals running around that could have been caught by these cameras.

hi momoftwingirls, it's a good thing your government is looking out for your protection. here in the philippines, our government is busy on plotting how to pocket taxpayers money. really, really sad. Anyway to answer your question, it's good if those cameras are installed outside of your home (home is where your privacy is). but outside, that is for your protection. i mean, there are a lot of bad entities outside and you never know what would happen. i envy you americans, you have a very thorough government. But monitoring you from home through webcams? well, i think that's too much.

The constitution might not give us privacy, but the fourth amendment sure does. But ever since the Patriot Act was passed we seem to have less and less privacy. But hey thats the price of freedom. Id rather have cameras watching me in the parking lot then have the parking lot blown up by a couple of terrorists. Not a good example but hey thats life. Cheers

You know what, I am really tired of the government being able to watch our every move, but we put them in office and then we don't have access to their every move. They spend taxpayers money on things we don't need or know about until it is too late, and spend our money on other countries before our own. I do not have anything against helping other countries, but I was always taught to help your own. Where is the privacy? What I do in my house is my business and no one elses. If someone was peeking in your window without your knowledge and then you found out, you could call the police on them and have them arrested, so what is so different about the government spying on us without our knowledge. And you don't necessarily have to be doing anything illegal to want your privacy. I do not feel safer, I just feel violated. I am totally against all this invasion of privacy.

I actually like the fact that they have cameras etc in public places. I am not sure if I am in favor or against the government ability to monitor. I was not aware they had those capabilities in non government entity.

It's too bad that spying on your neighbor wasn't that big of a tredn back when our founding fathers were alive. "All person haveth a right to their privacy" That'd be good. Did you know in the U.K. there's people that sit behind those cameras twenty four seven and they can yell at you if they spot you doing something wrong? They can yell at you for being antisocial. Sure, they're polite about it..but I think someone has the right to be antisocial if they feel like it. I don't think it stops as many crimes as they claim. Especially since the pros usually obscure their face..and are quick enough not to get caught. Besides, Yeah this new system will be abused in the future. Me, I wouldn't mind it so much since it's in public places, if there weren't so many misuses and bad implications to it. It's just give me an excuse not to show my face in public. Lol. I'm not really a social person to begin with..and 'public' generally has three people too many in it to begin with for my tastes heh. They don't need to watch me spaz out because someone's talking to me, lol. They don't need to watch me wolf down my plate of mashed potatos (a huge plate of just mashed potatos lol) in a restauraunt..wondering, "Does that skinny girl never eat?" I don't need to be making up fake conversations of what could be said in the video rooms lol. They don't need to know. If they wanna watch places twenty four seven, they should become security guards for said buildings. If people wanna be safe they should educate themselves on the fine arts of self defense and how to use an assortment of weapons. Besides, they take away my privacy they're going to have to deal with an angry rabid artist -- namely me: "How dare you watch me! You've frightened away my inspiration!" and that'd be true. I rarely come up with a good story or picture with people watching me. Excuse my humor on such a serious subject, it's a defense mechanism..I haven't laughed in ages, so..you know. I mean it though..the system's become a load of jerks with an unquenchable thirst for power, and that's not even funny anymore. It's become too serious.

do they know about all those chocolate bars i've digested that i've received as a "gift" from nofrills