Move over, Doomsday Clock

The ACLU now has a Surveillance Clock. The clock is patterned after the Doomsday Clock, but this one "counts down" to the completely loss of privacy in America. Like the Doomsday Clock, the Surveillance Clock is moved towards or away from midnight based upon what a handful of people arbitrarily deem to be threats to our privacy.

What's really mind-boggling about this is the chart that the ACLU has to mark Surveillance Milestones. It includes really bizarre items, like the invention of photography and the telegraph, the creation of the first full-time police force, the discovery of fingerprinting for identification, and the invention of motion pictures. Now lest you think these are cited because they led to other supposedly privacy-threatening things, then why are satellites included in the "1950-1960" section, but rockets aren't included earlier in the timeline?