Edward Snowden: ‘Governments can reduce our dignity to that of tagged animals’

[progressive_dad]

I've often thought it would be an interesting experiment to drop cheap GPS units into the bags of the homeless and create an online tracking system.

[thatcat]

sounds like the obama phone program

http://www.obamaphone.com/

[datalist]

I do not like such comparisons, as it (like animals) leaves the impression that such actions are just fine with anybody besides humans.

[blacksmith_tb]

Generally tagging animals is benevolent, though - scientists use RF tags to track animals in order to improve our understanding of population numbers, range, etc. So for me Snowden's analogy is a bit odd, if we tagged animals to make them easier for hunters to find, it would resonate more.