Are we already living in a 'big brother' society?

As long as the monitoring stays out of my house, they can put up cameras wherever they damn well please. People should be more vocal about insisting on the right to do something they care about though. Like, I'm not a smoker and don't like the smell of smoke and like it when a restaurant says "No Smoking."

But it pissed me off when my city decided that indoor smoking was illegal, wherever you are, and no one complained.

Having the cameras up and then insisting on a buttload of stupid rules on how we should act or dress or speak is what's coming, and I don't like it a bit. It isn't the monitoring, its what the monitoring could be used for. People should be allowed to read or listen to or say what they damn well please (in a private setting, not corporate perhaps) without fear of being targeted by the government, and that's something I'd defend to my dying breath.

So cameras on street corners are nothing new, and they're nothing to worry about. The government being able to demand your search history from Google... that would be a nightmare.

Jam it back in, in the dark.