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Spy Cameras
When I was a kid, I thought that surveillance equipment was neat. Nowadays, I just think of it as part of my job. Most people do not really think about it, but there are spy cameras nearly everywhere. Just take a minute to digest this observation, because I am not being paranoid. When you walk down a street in the downtown of any city in the country, you are probably being watched by at least one spy camera at any given time. Maybe your face is being recorded by the ATM that you are passing, or an image of your silhouette is being registered by a surveillance camera on top of a bank across the street. There might be a traffic camera grabbing the corner of the sidewalk you are walking past, or some amateur photographer down the alleyway, capturing frames of folks passing by.
The really neat stuff is the stuff you don't see. Spy equipment has gotten very good nowadays – so good that it scares the government itself. There are spy cameras out there that can get good resolution from a lens a centimeter across. There are vehicle bugs that are almost impossible to detect unless you have very good anti-bug sweepers. They can even put microchips under the skin of pets to keep track of their locations wherever they go. If they can put them under the skin of your dog, what's to say they can't put them under the skin of you? They could if they wanted to.
Still, there is a big difference between what is possible and what is useful. I work in a security firm, so I know quite a bit about spy cameras and other high tech surveillance devices. I would have to say that there are upwards of 50 large, utilitarian, visible spy cameras for every hidden covert one. After all, most of the time you want people to know that they are being watched. Just putting up a spy camera in a prominent place is often enough to make people who would normally cause trouble behave themselves. Just think about it. Do you think that all of the surveillance cameras up in the subways, buses, and light rail of this country are reviewed on a daily basis? We don't have to review them. Putting them up is usually enough. High tech stuff can be really neat, but sometimes the lower-tech, conspicuous equipment work the best.
Summary
If they can put them under the skin of your dog, what's to say they can't put them under the skin of you? They could if they wanted to. Still, there is a big difference between what is possible and what is useful. I work in a security firm, so I know quite a bit about spy cameras and other high tech surveillance devices.
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