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So do literally millions of other companies. Your face (and mine) are stored for weeks/months, maybe even years, on CCTV systems globally without consent, docum
by stu432 9y ago
So do literally millions of other companies. Your face (and mine) are stored for weeks/months, maybe even years, on CCTV systems globally without consent, documenting where you've been, what you've done, who you're with etc. Your phone does the same.
We went down the rabbit hole a very long time ago, why is it only now that people are starting to realise what it means?
- cJ0th 9y ago> We went down the rabbit hole a very long time ago, why is it only now that people are starting to realise what it means? I am not surprised at all. The mainstream moves very, very slowly. You see the same with musical genres. EDM, for instance, took 20-30 years to go mainstream in the US and it is still a relatively young market.
- simion314 9y agoIf I have a face and a city how much effort and time it takes to visit all places with cameras, search all the tapes and find that face? With a website like facebook that can track a browser on most webpages , having to find a person internet history would be just a SQL query away and the results would be back in a few milliseconds, so IMO FB and Google tracking are very different then what you described. Also because of convenience people ignored this until the US election issue, that pushed a real problem in the spotlight and regular people now get amazed but what Fb can do.
- sunir 9y agoTrump happened. That is why. Real world consequence. Love or hate Trump, the election is what motivated these inquiries. Just listen to the hearings internationally.
- rando444 9y agoYou're dismissing the whole argument based on some hipster notion of noticing a trend early?
- nakedrobot2 9y ago> We went down the rabbit hole a very long time ago, why is it only now that people are starting to realise what it means? Because Trump won, and we're still trying to figure out who to blame.