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There's another big difference as well - Passersby have distinct, human-fallible memory, while fixed cameras can have the information they record stored and com
by ThrustVectoring 11y ago
There's another big difference as well - Passersby have distinct, human-fallible memory, while fixed cameras can have the information they record stored and combined.
There's a gigantic difference between having a bunch of people see you in various places as you go about your day, and a searchable database of every place your face has been seen in public over the last two years.
- superuser2 11y agoAre you suggesting we legislate which thoughts and observations people are and aren't permitted to record and share?
- ThrustVectoring 11y agoNo, but I am suggesting which databases people should or should not be able to make. Or more specifically, which databases the police should or should not be able to make and access. "Who was seen where and when" isn't particularly privacy-violating. It's the search capability that is. This is especially true when it's targeted at a particular person - I'm not that worried about the police finding people who were in a particular area at a particular time. They've had that power for a long time, through canvassing and other traditional detective work. What I'm worried about is giving them the new ability to quickly and cheaply compile a list of everywhere someone has been and when.