@Grenade123 I suppose, in the eyes of the government, it would depend on who the victim is.

i'm not asking about the government

i'm asking about YOU

They managed to solve crimes before mass surveillance...

mass surveillance just makes it industrial.

at what point is the ability to catch a murder not worth it for your own personal privacy

If it's better for 100 guilty people to go free less 1 innocent go to jail... Surely the same should apply to privacy?

@LOLTRON more cameras, means more chances to catch a murder right as it happens, means less likely for there to be mass murders.

in theory, anyway

I would say catching a murderer is important, but we were catching killers before mass Internet surveillance and if you can show me data PROVING this rate of arrest has been improved for the better, I'll believe it. Still, even then I'd have to weigh it against the validity of sacrificing freedoms of everyone to catch about 1% of criminals, which I generally would not do.

^ the evidence suggests that isnt the case

most murders are crimes of passion, not premeditated.

mass murders

True

correction

Mass Murders are statistically 0

mass murderers

True; mass murders are generally premeditated...

not mass murders

sorry

but usually, they want noteriety.. they are looking for the fame..

(infamy)

True

several murders committed by the same person over a long period of time

Mass shootings/murders make up a fraction of homicides per year.

Serial murder?

even rarer than mass murder

yet what are people more afraid of?

Media hyperbole.

nazi's

media hyperbole? please, these types of fear existed before media companies

The MSM MAKES these things scary. They are scary, but the odds of being the victim of a mass homicide event in the US is slimmer than being in a plane crash or getting hit by a train.

the boogieman has been scaring people since the start of humanity

Well...

Fear sells papers, so to speak.

I would say it depends on your interpretation of MSM.

Fear clicks links.

fear sells everything

it sells guns too

Sex sells things better.

actually it doesn't