Blog 15: Minority Report Response

In the movie Minority Report, privacy really does not exist. The heightened security and the whole theory of Pre-Crime were made intentionally to help people and police to stop criminals before they would commit serious felonies. However, it leads to the invasion of privacy. In one scene from the movie, the police released spiders, which went into each and every single home in the apartment building. This is obviously a great invasion of privacy, to think that someone could be doing day to day activities where they would like to be private, such as taking a shower or sleeping they could even be doing personal business. Then here comes a robot spider going into my house via under my door and scanning my eyeball in an attempt to find a criminal on the loose. There's no privacy in that, if anything it seems pretty painful. Another example is the fact that damn near every facility that exists there are retinal scanners. There are a lot for just simple things such as advertisements, which personally state your name. But also it is a way for tracking people the police are looking for. On a simple train ride there are scanners for every single person that is on the train. The only sure fire way for someone to potentially get away with a serious crime is to get their eyeballs replaced and they would have to be out of public eye for the rest of their life. If someone has to go to the extremes of replacing their eyeballs with someone else's in order for them to be free from the scans and tracking then I think there is no such thing as safety anymore. There is two sides to every argument, therefore, I know some people would state it could easily catch a criminal that has done wrong. I would reply and say "To what extent" there seems to be no such thing as search warrants anymore. It also seems that the legendary bill of rights doesn’t exist at all anymore. Security and society really should not be this extreme. I would just rather see society and national security change very little. I would never want it to be the way minority report ends up as. I sincerely hope it does not turn out like this. If it does, then one can expect disorder and unhappy citizens. People would revolt eventually and not even the most high tech inventions can stop human will.