AS said:
Miniluv already has their hands full, tracking freedom haters and suspected
liberals. They just don't have the bandwidth to deal with a few emissions.
The whole issue of climate change is just a theory put forth by liberal,
godless scientists. Anyone whose car is putting out excess emissions is
actually being patriotic. Burning lots of gas and spewing out pollutants
makes a statement that we won't be intimidated by terrorists and they can't
make us change our way of life. Don't be surprised to see the biggest
polluters receiving a presidential medal of freedom.
</sarcasm>
Seriously though, "they" are monitoring "us" in so many different ways that
this really doesn't even make a blip on the radar. At least, in this case,
what they are doing is out in the open. My job involves processing
statistics (supplied voluntarily by the trackees (nothing surreptitious
here)), and I can assure you that the avalanche of tracking data being
accumulated by "them" is so enormous and so dirty and so badly managed that
it's almost indistinguishable from noise. More powerful hardware and
software only increases the volume of the data but does nothing to make it
more usable. Every time someone installs another probe and starts getting
more information about you, it is actually making you safer from snooping
because it makes things even less manageable.