Europe’s State of Mass Surveillance

Re:Europe’s State of Mass Surveillance by epups on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @08:42AM (#32069009)

> The Belgian proposal for targeting areas where there’s lots of crime sets the bar so low that it covers the whole country. Denmark isn’t much better, its crime level threshold means that close to 70 percent of the country’s population will be covered by its framework.

That's just disgusting. It's totally contrary to the spirit of the ruling.

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Re:Europe’s State of Mass Surveillance by Akronymus on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @08:50AM (#32069112)

Obviously, they are just avoiding being classist by covering all socio economic groups evenly. (I have heard similar reasoning before why focusing on high crime areas is bad.)

Sick and tired of privacy invasions for the sake of "safety"

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Re:Europe’s State of Mass Surveillance by feet on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:25PM (#32075888)

High crime areas are that way usually due to persistent intergenerational poverty and a lack of investment in the community combined with little to no local opportunity. That's how things are in the US at least, these conditions create desperation which leads some to desperate measures

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