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> Payments on public transit could become anonymous, but the video feeds would still be recorded, and facial recognition could be easily performed. In the arti
by robotresearcher 9y ago
> Payments on public transit could become anonymous, but the video feeds would still be recorded, and facial recognition could be easily performed.
In the article Stallman explicitly proposes deleting such video recordings after a timeout, and forbidding facial reco without prior cause.
- nwah1 9y agoHis first argument was that accumulation itself needs to be prevented. If security requires accumulation proceed, then the answer is that his vision of preventing accumulation is not really possible. How many times have we heard of large institutions suffering data breaches or failing to delete data that they are supposed to delete? Once it is accumulated, all bets are off.
- robotresearcher 9y agoOnce again, The Fine Article has you covered. Stallman says when such logs are necessary, they should never be network accessible. Go get the disk out of the physically secured machine if you need the data for $SERIOUSREASON.