http://www.samefacts.com/2006/12/crime-control/gps-and-community-corrections/ Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:22:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.samefacts.com/2006/12/crime-control/gps-and-community-corrections/comment-page-1/#comment-23532 Matt Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:34:36 +0000 http://samefacts.dreamhosters.com/2006/12/uncategorized/gps-and-community-corrections/#comment-23532 This is off the main topic of the post (sorry) but does anyone else find the idea of using even a "more humane" version of an "electric doggie fence" on your kids a bit disturbing and unpleasent? This is off the main topic of the post (sorry) but does anyone else find the idea of using even a “more humane” version of an “electric doggie fence” on your kids a bit disturbing and unpleasent?

]]> http://www.samefacts.com/2006/12/crime-control/gps-and-community-corrections/comment-page-1/#comment-23531 fishbane Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:53:19 +0000 http://samefacts.dreamhosters.com/2006/12/uncategorized/gps-and-community-corrections/#comment-23531 "If I were running a probation (or parole, or bail) agency, I'd be on the phone to Verizon right now." I suspect that those contacts have already been made, but they have more to do with tracking every cell phone, and also land lines. Look at disclosure and leaked documents on the current ATT suits. The records may not be being used as dope-selling prevention, as you seem to want, but that is a matter of time- the panopticon is here. It is just a matter of the masters learning to use the tools. and deciding which transgressions are more interesting to punish than others. “If I were running a probation (or parole, or bail) agency, I’d be on the phone to Verizon right now.”
I suspect that those contacts have already been made, but they have more to do with tracking every cell phone, and also land lines. Look at disclosure and leaked documents on the current ATT suits.
The records may not be being used as dope-selling prevention, as you seem to want, but that is a matter of time- the panopticon is here. It is just a matter of the masters learning to use the tools. and deciding which transgressions are more interesting to punish than others.

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