use<\/a> the microphone on some powered-off cell phones as a room bug<\/strong> \u2014 presumably only with a warrant.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI think of things like \u201chow will this be used in the confessional\u201d when people tell me of the unalloyed good of \u201ccitizen journalists\u201d running around secretly recording people.\u00a0 Because it seems to me to be an open invitation to creating a sort of Youtube-powered regime of mutual fear and suspicion.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen whole civilizations descend into regimes where every neighbor is informing on every other neighbor.\u00a0 Not exactly the Christian vision of a civilization of love.<\/p>\n
And with the technology described above it can (and will) mean that\u00a0some\u00a0bright \u201ccitizen journalist\u201d (or even hundreds of them,\u00a0 or even agents of the state) will start listening in on (and posting to Youtube) the contents of confessions\u2013as in \u201csacrament of reconciliation\u201d confessions.\u00a0 And it will be sold as cutting moral corners for the Greater Good and Saving the Children and all the rest of it.<\/p>\n
Be careful what you wish for.\u00a0 You may well get it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From an\u00a0Atlantic piece on what the technology can do to spy on you: \u201cWe also know that the FBI has\u00a0been\u00a0intercepting cell-phone data, all but voice content, for the past 20 years without a warrant, and can use the microphone on some powered-off cell phones as a room bug \u2014 presumably only with a warrant.\u201d I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-45094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-growing-police-state"],"yoast_head":"\n
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