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As long as I or you can use it to track the coming and going of your Congressman and Senators, at the same price that Amazon charges others, I guess it is okay.
by patrickg_zill 8y ago
As long as I or you can use it to track the coming and going of your Congressman and Senators, at the same price that Amazon charges others, I guess it is okay. That nice townhouse he visited with the attractive blonde who lives there, while his wife was out of town? It's ok for me to track and then publish the info, right?
We're all equal when we are in public view, right?
- louithethrid 8y agoSome are more transparent then others, in fact some are outright opaque.
- driverdan 8y agoI've long wanted to setup a system like this. Cameras facing all entrances and exits of the state capitol would be fed into ALPR and facial recognition software. There are enough photos of elected officials to train facial recognition. It would be easy to identify who is coming and going, what cars they own, who they travel with, and their patterns.
- gowld 8y agoNYT did it. https://open.nytimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-uses-software-to-recognize-members-of-congress-29b46dd426c7 https://open.nytimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-uses-softwar...
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- deleted_account 8y agoThat just sounds like journalism to me, so: "Yes, it's ok."
- gowld 8y agoSays you. But will the police/FBI/DA agree, or say it's terroristic stalking?
- thatfrenchguy 8y agoBut why do you care ?
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- atomical 8y agoImagine license plate readers all over town committing license plate numbers to a blockchain.
- imaoreo 8y agoCalifornia is already rolling out "smart" licence plates, so not far off.
- krick 8y agoWhat do you mean by "committing license plate numbers to a blockchain"?
- Latteland 8y agoProbably that the records are preserved in some way that they can't be redacted or removed later.
- krick 8y agoWhat records? I don't understand what this is supposed to describe. Just writing every plate number some device has seen to the append-only DB? Is that it? What's value in that?
- stilldavid 8y agoI think the value would be with recording a location and time with the plate number, not just that a plate exists.
- ShorsHammer 8y agoAdd MAC addresses passing through major intersections and you've got some quality data to work with.
- em3rgent0rdr 8y agoPoliticians should have less right to privacy than us citizens.
- mirimir 8y agoEveryone with substantial power should have less privacy. Politicians should have almost none.
- lovemenot 8y agoThat was a core idea for the British Establishment. Public school was where children went to learn how to operate in public life. The rest of the population had less privilege, but more privacy.