When automated speed cameras were introduced in Sweden in the 190s they were shot. Literally. The citizens were so outraged by the idea of being sentenced to an automatic fine, radars were destroyed with shotguns, or almost in any conceivable way (!): The average lifespan of a new speed camera of the brand police was 14 days. They were taken for a decade, then reintroduced in mass without any resistance. What happened?
There was a change of identity important that the 190s came around. In the 1980s, the whole identity of the West was "We are not the ." And the , they were the countries east of the curtain iron, countries that have automated monitoring of all their citizens, all the time. It was a false image and a false identity, of course, but still strong identity.
If you had told people Echelon surveillance network in the 1980s, nobody would have believed you Such was the substance of Soviet repression, not of the free West Maybe because of this indoctrination -.. that the West was indentity freedom and individual rights - has been the reaction so hard to automated surveillance, severe enough for people in a country with stringent gun laws to destroy the property of the police with shotguns force. this civil disobedience should not be underestimated.
So what happened when speed cameras were deployed for a second time?
The major geopolitical difference was that there was no repressive power to polarize against. To make a long story short, people are no longer supported to make a difference in the way they had in the 1980s, to the brink of nuclear annihilation and when people felt they had to take a stand. Instead, all the "positive cost savings and increased road safety" could dominate the discourse, and therefore, automated speed traps were deployed en masse.
The observation is that the identity of a population is essential for that cares about civil liberties or not. Paradoxically, it seems useful to have a neighbor who is not care about those freedoms -. Or there will not be anything compared to
How are we going back to a feeling where people care so much for the liberties they were ready to destroy automated police equipment that has been used for mass surveillance, risking long prison sentences in the process? Is it even possible? I have no clear answer to this question.
However, I know that in the meantime, privacy remains your own responsibility.
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