INVASION OF PRIVACY AND OF DATA - UNNOTICED AND FREE!

INVASION OF PRIVACY AND OF DATA - UNNOTICED AND FREE! 

      Folks, speaking seriously! There are some things that I haven't had being able to to understand. Well, according to René Descartes, in the "Discourse on the Method", ‘one of the things more widely well distributed on the Earth is the common sense'. Many people find they are better than the other ones, but that is not always true. Others don't seem to be so wise, although the way they approach some subject, they are noticed as quite balanced. Maybe due to Descartes, I am not that stupid. I believe I have a good sense in my reflexive enterprise.

      I’ve been feeling my head full of boiling questions. Before, I will make some considerations and later I expose my interrogations.

Considering that:

1 - the city of Rio Branco has been crowded with of radars to sweep out the money of the drivers’ pockets with fines attributed to their vehicles; sometimes, the same car is fined in the same point, twice, with an aggravating sign of a joke typically "Portuguese", in the two sides of the road, going and coming;

2 - each radar is linked directly to a data processing headquarters and the transmission of the information is made in real time by a telephony operator;

3 - the data transmitted by each installed equipment seem not to have any protection cryptography and they can be invaded and have their data captured by any expert of information technology;

4 - nowadays, the city of Rio Branco is receiving an enormous amount of surveillance cameras, which are being planted in strategic spots along public streets and avenues and they also transmit in real time the citizens' and automobiles movements, without a single restriction;

5 - urban citizens from Rio Branco-Acre, and also their visitors, they are coerced to participate in a surveillance program, in which neither a request, nor a popular consultation, was carried out to know if they want and/or if they approve such an invasion of privacy;

6 - those expenses with that surveillance system were not shown transparently and it is not known the actual burden to the taxpayer's pocket;

7 - the risk to see those equipments being damaged again and released to uselessness due to the lack maintenance as it is noticed with some old ones; we can find some, close to the Rio Branco Palace, to the Rio Branco Stadium, to UFAC downtown, and in other places that I don't know clearly to inform; they are already broken and therefore useless;

8 - there is no transparency for those actions and facts. 

I ask: 

1 - which are the true objectives of these procedures of invasion of privacy with those radars and those cameras?

2 - how much was the cost to implant those radars and invasion cameras?

3 - how much is collected with those radars and where is the money going to?

4 - who controls and to what extent does he/she exert control over this system that operates that amount of data?

5 - how many Brazilian cities would be or are using similar resources without having the actual notion of this invasion of privacy and who else would be accessing those data?

6 – have these data been watched and spied by the American spying agencies, such as: CIA, FBI, and NSA? Do they serve to ABIN and FP as well?

7 - do the constituted authorities have cognitive capacity to know who accesses that content, and if they know, how do they use these records?

8 - which is the degree of exhibition of the citizens' life in those centers of invasion of privacy? 

9 - who are the authorities that take care of these dynamic invasion centers? Are they parts of militias? Do they suffer any lawsuit? Would they be suitable and correct enough to act in an ethical and humanized way?

10 - would Mr. Obama and Mrs. Dilma have some personal interest in that kind of thing? To what extent?

11 – are we really meant to be seen as terrorists' embryos for the Americans or brainless beasts for a nation with little reliable national authorities?

I believe there should be more correct, transparent, and honest authorities. But, the "last instance" doesn't serve anymore for reference. who else must we appeal to? And how?